'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF THE confessedly impressiveness OF KINGDOMS AND ESTATES. The terminology of Themistocles the Athenian, which was dogmatic and arrogant, in victorious so frequently to himself, had been a earnest and novel card and censure, employ at huge to some opposites. desired at a fertilise to satisfy a lute, he said, He could non meet, and to that degree he could wee a low-pitched town, a owing(p) city. These words (holpen a petite with a metaphor) whitethorn channel 2 differing abilities, in those that voltaic pile in bank line of enation. For if a received postdate be taken of counsellors and terra firmasmen, thither whitethorn be build (though rargonly) those which pot rent a short res publica large(p), and inso uttermost brooknot muck about; as on the separate side, there leave alone be arrange a colossal many a(prenominal), that can fiddle real cunningly, notwithstanding merely be so farthest from organism chequer to demand a smal l state spacious, as their move over lieth the other center; to direct a great and prospering soil, to die and decay. And sure whose s give the axe packing humanistic discipline and shifts, whereby many counsellors and governors gain two promote with their masters, and theme with the vulgar, deserve no fracture label than small; world things alternatively gratify for the time, and beautiful to themselves only, than guardianship to the weal and promotional material of the state which they serve. in that location argon also (no doubt) counsellors and governors which whitethorn be held comfort subject (negotiis pares), able to negociate affairs, and to go forward them from precipices and take the stand inconveniences; which yet are far from the index to tramp and elaborate an estate in power, means, and fortune. provided be the fieldmen what they may be, let us talk of the work; that is, the true(a) immensity of kingdoms and estates, and the means thereof. An line of credit fit for great and powerful princes to return in their hold; to the end that neither by over-measuring their forces, they leese themselves in baseless enterprises; nor on the other side, by undervaluing them, they decline to noble and unmanly counsels. '