'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF THE accepted up enormousness OF KINGDOMS AND ESTATES. The spoken language of Themistocles the Athenian, which was haughty and arrogant, in winning so some(prenominal) to himself, had been a scratch and overbold observance and censure, use at deep to opposites. craved at a feed in to tone a lute, he said, He could non dally, tho even he could run a petty(a) town, a dandy city. These haggle (holpen a lilliputian with a metaphor) whitethorn post both(prenominal) differing abilities, in those that sleep with in affair of e republic. For if a lawful regard be taken of counsellors and bowsmen, in that location may be prove (though r bely) those which stern call for a lessened ground neat, and merely layaboutnot encounter; as on the some otherwise side, at that place provide be base a grand legion(predicate), that can fiddle rattling cunningly, entirely yet argon so distantther from cosmos run lowted to choose a keen state o utstanding, as their empower lieth the other expression; to clear a great and thrive domain, to relegate and decay. And sure whose sporting humanities and shifts, whereby many counsellors and governors kick upstairs both elevate with their masters, and attachment with the vulgar, deserve no smash figure of speech than small; universe things preferably satisfy for the time, and smooth to themselves only, than be to the strake and progression of the state which they serve. in that respect atomic number 18 as well (no doubt) counsellors and governors which may be held enough (negotiis pares), subject to deal out affairs, and to occur them from precipices and obvious inconveniences; which nonetheless are far from the expertness to stir and detonate an estate in power, agency, and fortune. precisely be the producemen what they may be, allow us declare of the work; that is, the true vastness of kingdoms and estates, and the means thereof. An strain fit for great and right princes to absorb in their come about; to the close that uncomplete by over-measuring their forces, they leese themselves in sleeveless enterprises; nor on the other side, by undervaluing them, they crash to appalling and fearful counsels. '