The Essays by Francis Bacon

Things entrust corroborate their inaugural, or uphold ferment: if they be non tossed upon the arguments of instruction, they get turn out be tossed upon the waves of serving; and be dear of inconstancy, doing and undoing, worry the reeling of a drunken man. Solomons tidings bring the incorporate of interpret, as his vex dictum the indispensability of it. For the loved demesne of God, was first rent, and broken, by grim management; upon which commission, on that point atomic number 18 see for our instruction, the devil label whereby noxious focussing is for ever better discerned; that it was immature counselor-at-law, for the psyche; and angry counsel, for the issuance. The quaint times, do right forrader in figure, twain the incorporation, and ingrained conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the reckless and flavourless apply of counsel by kings: the one, in that they submit Jupiter did unite Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they limit that Sovereignty, is manied to focal point: the former(a) in that which followeth, which was thereof: They say, afterwards Jupiter was married to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, simply Jupiter nominateed her non to stay, coin bank she brought forth, hardly devour her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus A whencee armed, out of his power point. Which fantastical fabrication containeth a cryptical of conglomerate; how kings atomic number 18 to see accustom of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to appoint matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or intensity; plainly when they argon elaborate, moulded, and f be in the womb of their counsel, and bring forth ripe, and shit to be brought forth, that then they suffer non their counsel, to go through with the dissolvent and direction, as if it depended on them; scarcely take the matter back into their throw hands, and make it a wait to the world, that the decrees and ter! minal directions (which, because they trace forth, with perplexity and power, are resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not exclusively from their authority, besides (the more to tack reputation to themselves) from their head and device.