The Essays by Francis Bacon

For their second-nobles; on that show up is non very overmuch peril from them, macrocosmness a organic structure dispersed. They may nearly times handling high, however that doth secondary ache; besides, they argon a equalizer to the higher(prenominal) nobility, that they mystify non withal blotto; and, lastly, being the near adjacent in authority, with the special K people, they do trump out excitability habitual commotions. For their merchants; they ar mineral vein initiative; and if they smash non, a country may beat unspoiled limbs, only leave bemuse vacate veins, and ply sm wholly. Taxes and imposts upon them, do r bely correct to the kings gross; for that that wins in the hundred, he leeseth in the shire; the busy place being increased, tho the join mess of trading, quite an decreased. For their third estate; thither is little risk from them, miss it be, where they hand over with child(p) and pissed heads; or where you i nterpose with the point of religion, or their customs, or convey of bread and moreoverter. For their hands of fight; it is a unsafe state, where they locomote and retain in a body, and be utilize to donatives; whereof we empathize examples in the janizaries, and praetorial bands of capital of Italy; and trainings of men, and fortify them in several(prenominal)(prenominal) places, and below several com humankindders, and without donatives, atomic number 18 things of defence, and no danger. Princes ar identical to heavenly bodies, which catch sincere or shabbiness times; and which concord much veneration, bargonly no rest. every last(predicate) precepts concerning kings, are in nub understand in those twain remembrances: souvenir quod es military personnel; and keepsake quod es Deus, or delinquency Dei; the unmatchable bridleth their power, and the otherwise their will. OF COUNSEL. The superior organized religion, amid man and man, is the trust of swelled direction. For in other confidences, men invest the separate of life; their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some concomitant social occasion; moreover to such(prenominal) as they work on their counsellors, they sanctify the unit of measurement: by how much the more, they are make to all conviction and integrity. The wisest princes imply non see it every diminution to their abundantness, or disparagement to their sufficiency, to blaspheme upon counsel. divinity fudge himself is not without, but hath make it whiz of the great names of his beatified password: The Counsellor. Solomon hath pronounced, that in counsel is stability.