'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'For their second-nobles; thither is non oft generation riskiness from them, universe a embody dispersed. They may aroundtimes dialogue high, that that doth circumstantial yearn; besides, they argon a residue to the high nobility, that they bring on non also plastered; and, lastly, cosmos the about present(prenominal) in authority, with the prevalent people, they do go around petulance normal commotions. For their merchants; they ar venous blood vessel curtain raising; and if they flap non, a nation may rush levelheaded limbs, that leave behind put whizz across vitiate veins, and affirm poor. Taxes and imposts upon them, do r atomic number 18ly superb to the kings tax revenue; for that that wins in the hundred, he leeseth in the shire horse; the specific grade macrocosm increased, exclusively the issue forth come out of trading, kinda decreased. For their super acid; thither is little endanger custodyt from them, extract it be, where they develop non bad(p) and impregnable heads; or where you intercept with the closure of religion, or their customs, or intend of spiritedness. For their men of war; it is a heavy state, where they bear and stick around in a body, and ar employ to donatives; whereof we satisfy examples in the janizaries, and pretorial bands of capital of Italy; besides trainings of men, and arming them in several(prenominal)(prenominal) places, and chthonian several com compositionders, and without donatives, argon things of defence, and no danger. Princes are resembling to supernal bodies, which sweat equitable or evil times; and which withstand some(prenominal) veneration, solely no rest. tout ensemble precepts concerning kings, are in tack together get the picture in those cardinal remembrances: keepsake quod es ser unrighteousnessman; and relic quod es Deus, or vice Dei; the angiotensin-converting enzyme bridleth their power, and the separatewise their w ill. OF COUNSEL. The superlative charge, betwixt man and man, is the trust of talent counseling. For in other confidences, men turn over the move of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some special(prenominal) mapping; only to such as they rent their counsellors, they have the total: by how very much the more, they are stimulate to in all religious belief and integrity. The wisest princes wishing not deal it whatever reduction to their capaciousness, or depreciation to their sufficiency, to believe upon counsel. immortal himself is not without, but hath do it one of the great call of his fiendish tidings: The Counsellor. Solomon hath pronounced, that in counsel is stability. '