Autobiography During the Religious Wars, Vol. 4

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Autobiography During the Religious Wars, Vol. 4: From the Spanish Saint Teresa to the English Cavaliers (1550-1630) A different mind and different type of man stands before us in that other and still greater literary Elizabethan, Lord Bacon. Bacon was easily the foremost statesman and philoso pher of his age; but he was a very self-centered man. His career shows that the British nobles were losing that rare sense of freedom, that splendid self - dependence, of the days of the Invincible Armada. England victorious had be come England cautious. The rewards of life were now too rich to be lightly thrown away. Fanatics rise from among the miserable, not from those who live in leisurely ease and comfort. Lord Bacon's attitude toward his own life, his countrymen, and his king, gives us a cynical contrast to that of the earlier writers in our volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.