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... of how Francis Bacon, himself deeply involved in Virginia plantations by 1620, renders Harriot’s intervention into philosophy, in his famous pronouncement in the New Organon that “knowledge and power . . . really come to the same thing.” Jennifer Rae Speculation and Scienti c Method: Greeson Thomas...

... neutrality or disinterest. Consider, for example, Francis Bacon’s assault on words in Novum Organum, published in 1620, the year the pilgrims departed for the New World. Bacon describes the defeat...

... in the early modern period. In the course of this breakup, the so-called New Sciences disavowed the book and proclaimed the New World as the paradigm of experimental empiricism, famously allegorized on the frontispiece of Francis Bacon s Novum Organum (1620) as a European galleon passing through the Pillars...

... cultivateur Americain (1784) to Francis Bacon s New Atlantis (1626) and Richard Ligon s True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (1657). As a result, literary historians not only of the British Americas but also of the Spanish and French Americas have generated new insights about archives once...

... Francis Bacon, creating what Jonas terms a centuries-long­ “revolution” in “world-­view.”18 Second, however, even as all three affirm the notion of modernity as a significant historical break, they simultaneously look to the medieval era to uncover the roots of that break, along with other...

... as a whole functions as an allegorical critique of precisely the oriental despotism decried as the corrupt source of stagnant expenditure of which the white elephant serves as a prominent symbol. Finally, he examines the relationship between Siam and America in George Bacon's Siam, the Land of the White...

... style will either amuse or annoy. Ward suggests, for example, that ‘‘the interesting American playwrights could be counted on the fingers following an accident with a bacon-slicer’’ and (fol- lowing an extended citation from Toni Morrison’s Beloved), he smirks: ‘‘Call me churlish/male/Ishmael...

... the fact that he knows enough to mock it in detail. He did well in mathematics at West Point and pursued interests in astronomy and cosmogony. In a more empirical vein, his “Letter to Mr. B (1831) praises Francis Bacon’s methods; and his “South-Sea Expedition” (1843) lauds “sci- entific men...

... deepest structure to his most casual analogies’’ (4). The American Scholar Walls writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art...

... to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls is not concerned with denying Emerson’s...

... translate the laws of ethics For the rest of Emerson’s life, ‘‘science permeated his thought and writing at every level, from its deepest structure to his most casual analogies’’ (4). The American Scholar Walls writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40...

... writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls...

... writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls...

... most casual analogies’’ (4). The American Scholar Walls writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science...

... Walls writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls...

... Walls writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls...

... writes, ‘‘was Emerson’s attempt to rewrite [Francis] Bacon into an American idiom’’ (40). Likewise, the natural theology of such figures as Ralph Cudworth and William Paley shaped Emerson’s sense of nature as the ‘‘art of god’’ and science as the discovery of divinely ordained laws. Walls...

... Paul, Plato, Francis Bacon, Blaise Pascal, Jeremy Taylor, Shaftesbury, and Bernard Mandeville, among others, the author presents with this peculiar “rag pamphlet” a statement that is equal parts “moonshine” philosophy, secular sermon, and ethical disquisition (Melville 1971 , 209). “Chronometricals...

... in the Making: Francis Bacon and the Politics of Inquiry. Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins Univ. Press. Swaminathan, Srividhya. 2009. Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759 1815. New York: Routledge. Tise, Larry. 1987. Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America...

... . “ Preface .” In Representative American Short Stories . Norwood, MA : Allyn and Bacon . Johnson Rossiter , ed. 1897 . A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893 . 4 vols . New York : D. Appleton . Joseph Philip . 2007 . American Literary Regionalism...