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In his analysis of the essay, contemporary rhetorician Richard Lanham describes Bacon's style as "clipped," "curt," "compressed," and "pointed":
No climax at the end; no sign the whole chain of reasoning had been thought out beforehand; somewhat abrupt transitions("Some there are," "Nay, there are," "Nay, more"), several antithetical contrasts, the whole built on a single, pointed and condensed moral reflection. It is from this last characteristic that the name "pointed style" comes. The "point" is the condensed, pithy, oftenproverbial and always memorable statement of a general truth.
(Analyzing Prose, 2nd ed. Continuum, 2003)You may find it worthwhile to compare Bacon's aphoristic observations with the lengthier reflections in Joseph Addison's "Defence and Happiness of Married Life."