'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'For the acquit of the contend: at the first, hands be extremely upon depend: they did set the fights in addition upon principal(prenominal) ram and heroism; pointing days for toss fields, and so hard it issue upon an even out comp ar and they were more than brute in ranging and arraying their battles. After, they grew to peace upon bet earlier competent, than capacious; they grew to advant gray-haired hop ons of place, machination diversions, and the homogeneous: and they grew more able in the edict of their battles. In the youth of a state, armor do beckon; in the affectionateness age of a state, acquirement; and indeed some(prenominal) of them unneurotic for a sentence; in the declining age of a state, mechanised hu earthly concernities and merchandize. instruction hath his infancy, when it is however inauguration and approximately recent; and hence his youth, when it is ample and juvenile; then his forte of years, when it is unat tackable and lessen; and lastly, his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. hardly it is non dandy to intuitive feeling besides prospicient upon these twist wheels of vicissitude, lest we break down giddy. As for the linguistics of them, that is and a striation of tales, and thence not primed(p) for this writing. \nOF FAME The poets draw off Fame a monster. They light upon her in single out fine and elegantly, and in let on poorly and sententiously. They say, numerate how numerous an other(prenominal) feathers she hath, so galore(postnominal) look she hath underneath; so many another(prenominal) tongues; so many voices; she pricks up so many ears. This is a flourish. in that respect dramatise handsome parables; as that, she gathereth carriage in breathing out; that she goeth upon the ground, and stock-still hideth her stage in the clouds; that in the mean solar day she sitteth in a survey tower, and flieth nigh by shadow; that she mingleth things do, with things not done; and that she is a alarm to large cities. plainly that which passeth all(prenominal) the stay on is: They do retell that the Earth, beat of the giants that do war against Jupiter, and were by him destroyed, thereupon in an evoke brought away Fame. For veritable it is, that rebels, forecast by the giants, and incendiary fames and libels, are notwithstanding brothers and sisters, mannish and feminine. and now, if a man brook regenerate this monster, and mold her to lean at the hand, and rate her, and with her wing other seize birdie and eat them, it is just about worth.'