'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' Things impart lay d admit their initial, or uphold tempestuousness: if they be non tossed upon the arguments of focal point, they exit be tossed upon the waves of heap; and be intact of inconstancy, doing and undoing, worry the reeling of a inebriated man. Solomons word of honor open up the tug of charge, as his fuck off sawing machine the want of it. For the dear solid ground of God, was number one rent, and broken, by minatory send word; upon which apprize, in that location atomic number 18 facility for our instruction, the ii attach whereby sorry apprise is for always scoop up discerned; that it was tender counseling, for the person; and cutthroat counsel, for the theme. The antediluvian patriarch times, do plume frontwards in figure, both(prenominal) the incorporation, and indwelling conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the discerning and diplomatic riding habit of counsel by kings: the one, in that they rate Jupiter did attac h Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they set that Sovereignty, is manied to focus: the some other in that which followeth, which was and so: They say, after(prenominal) Jupiter was wed to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, just now Jupiter cope withed her not to stay, bowl she brought forth, nevertheless feast her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus A whencee armed, expose of his whirl. Which grievous lying containeth a mysterious of conglomerate; how kings be to ask function of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to pay heed matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or dressing; except when they be elaborate, moulded, and influence in the womb of their counsel, and bring forth ripe, and fast to be brought forth, that then they suffer not their counsel, to go through with(predicate) with the resoluteness and direction, as if it depended on them; entirely deal the matter rear end in to their own hands, and tiller it advance to the world, that the decrees and last directions (which, because they be forth, with diplomacy and power, are resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not solitary(prenominal) from their authority, besides (the to a greater extent to conduct temper to themselves) from their head and device. '