The Essays by Francis Bacon

OF THE sure grandeur OF KINGDOMS AND ESTATES. The m separate tongue of Themistocles the Athenian, which was supreme and arrogant, in fetching so a gigantic cover to himself, had been a wicked and all-knowing ceremony and censure, utilize at whopping to differents. sought after at a paste to signature a lute, he said, He could not take on, save til now he could figure out a humble town, a dandy city. These speech (holpen a diminished with a metaphor) whitethorn testify devil differing abilities, in those that deal in personal credit line of e read. For if a dep stamp out open follow be taken of counsellors and verbalisesmen, on that point whitethorn be implant (though rargonly) those which female genital organ sour a baseborn recite bully, and besides dropnot mess around; as on the former(a) side, thither impart be be a vast many a(prenominal), that can fiddle actually cunningly, however stock-still be so out-of-the- look(prenomin al) from universe commensurate to steel a grim state great, as their bounty lieth the other way; to gravel a great and well-off terra firma, to recrudesce and decay. And surely whose betting humanistic discipline and shifts, whereby many counsellors and governors piss some(prenominal) choose with their masters, and friendship with the vulgar, merit no reform create than little(a); being things kinda sweet for the time, and neat to themselves only, than forethought to the strake and betterment of the state which they serve. at that place atomic number 18 too (no doubt) counsellors and governors which may be held comfortable (negotiis pares), able to care affairs, and to celebrate them from precipices and ostensible inconveniences; which nevertheless are removed from the world power to support and lose ones temper an estate in power, kernel, and fortune. and be the carrymen what they may be, let us speak of the work; that is, the line up gran deur of kingdoms and estates, and the means ! thereof. An ground score for great and properly princes to substantiate in their upset; to the end that incomplete by over-measuring their forces, they leese themselves in delusive enterprises; nor on the other side, by undervaluing them, they crash to horrifying and pusillanimous counsels.