Apophthegms

Byron complained of the omission from the notes to the first edition of Don Juan, of his corrections of Bacon's "Apophthegms" (see

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The anecdote which quotes this line was reprinted in The Works of Samuel Johnson, vol. 11 (Apophthegms, Sentiments, Opinions and Occasional Reflections), p. 216 (1787).

Samuel Johnson (1709-84) 1989

ATTRIBUTION: FRANCIS BACON, Apophthegms, New and Old (vol. 13 of The Works of Francis Bacon), ed. James A. Spedding, Robert L. Ellis and Douglas D. Heath, no. 149, p. 359 (1860, reprinted 1969).

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 1989

Finally, in December 1624, he published his _Apophthegms_, and _Translations of some of the Psalms_, dedicated to

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various

Among the literary works are included all that he himself designated moral and historical pieces, and to these may be added some theological and minor writings, such as the _Apophthegms_.

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Apophthegms_, which Stobæus and Cicero evidently followed; this, and what is to be gathered from Athenæus and Julius Pollux, with a few words in Hesychius and the _Etymologicon Magnum_, is the whole amount of our information.

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 Various

"History of Henry VII.," and then all the "Letters," (especially those to the Earl of Devonshire, explaining the Essex business,) and all but his "Apophthegms."

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_Apophthegms_, though hardly deserving Macaulay's praise of being the best collection of jests in the world, contain a number of those significant anecdotes which Bacon used with such effect in his other writings.

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Apophthegms; all which Augustus forbad to be published, in a short and plain letter to Pompeius Macer, who was employed by him in the arrangement of his libraries.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Apophthegms; all which Augustus forbad to be published, in a short and plain letter to Pompeius Macer, who was employed by him in the arrangement of his libraries.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus