See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:SPEDDING (18o8–1881)
, See also:English author, editor of the See also:works of See also:- BACON
- BACON (through the O. Fr. bacon, Low Lat. baco, from a Teutonic word cognate with " back," e.g. O. H. Ger. pacho, M. H. Ger. backe, buttock, flitch of bacon)
- BACON, FRANCIS (BARON VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST ALBANS) (1561-1626)
- BACON, JOHN (1740–1799)
- BACON, LEONARD (1802–1881)
- BACON, ROGER (c. 1214-c. 1294)
- BACON, SIR NICHOLAS (1509-1579)
Bacon, was See also:born on the 26th of See also:June 18o8, in Cumber-See also:land, the younger son of a See also:country See also:squire
.
He was educated at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he took a second class in the classical tripos, and was junior optime in See also:mathematics in 1831
.
In 1835 he entered the colonial See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, but he resigned this See also:post in 1841
.
In 1842 he was secretary to See also:Lord See also:Ashburton on his See also:American See also:mission, and in 1855 he became secretary to the See also:Civil Service See also:Commission; but from 1841 on-wards he was constantly occupied in his researches into Bacon's See also:life and See also:philosophy
.
On the 1st of See also:March 1881 he was knocked down by a See also:cab in See also:London, and on the 9th he died of See also:erysipelas
.
His See also:great edition of Bacon was begun in 1847 in collaboration with R
.
E
.
See also:Ellis and D
.
D
.
See also:Heath
.
In 1853 Ellis had to leave the See also:work to See also:Spedding, with the occasional assistance of Heath, who edited most of the legal writings
.
The Works were published in 1857–1859 in seven volumes, followed by the Life and Letters (1861–1874)
.
Taken together these works contain practically all the material which exists in connexion with the subject, collected and weighed with the utmost care and impartiality
.
Spedding humorously emphasized his devotion to Bacon in the See also:title of one of his non-Baconian works, Reviews and Discussions, See also:Literary, See also:Political and See also:Historical, not See also:relating to Bacon (1879); and his literary remains outside that one See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field are no longer of See also:interest
.
But as a Baconian See also:scholar he is not likely soon to be superseded
.
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