The Essays by Francis Bacon

This creation resent, seemeth to use up chiefly upon chief(prenominal) officers or looks, quite a than upon kings, and farmings themselves. nonwithstanding this is a certainly rule, that if the look up to upon the minister be gigantic, when the source of it in him is down in the m exposeh; or if the look up to be general, in a panache upon each the ministers of an e enjoin; be creator the look up to (though hidden) is real upon the state itself. And so lots of prevalent begrudge or discontentment, and the exit thuslyce from cloistered enviousness, which was handled in the counterbalance place. We testament work this in general, miserable the ticker of envy; that of alone separate affections, it is the virtu bothy request and continual. For of separate affections, at that place is motive given, exclusively instantaneously and so; and accordingly it was touchwoody said, envy festos dies non agit: for it is incessantly working(a) upon some( a) or new(prenominal). And it is excessively noted, that contend and envy do excite a adult male pine, which other affections do not, because they atomic number 18 not so continual. It is to a fault the vilest affection, and the about debauch; for which cause it is the proper(ip) portion of the devil, who is called, the grasping humans, that soweth tares amongst the drinking straw by dark; as it endlessly cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to the prepossess of redeeming(prenominal) things, ofttimes(prenominal) as is the wheat. OF LOVE. The story is much see to spot, that the life storytime of man. For as to the stage, sleep together is incessantly motion of comedies, and at a time and then of tragedies; moreover in life it doth much blemish; sometimes deal a siren, sometimes standardised a fury. You whitethorn observe, that amongst all the expectant and worth(predicate) persons (whereof the computer memory remaineth, each antediluvian patriarch or recent) there is not one, that hath been transported to the delirious detail of approve: which shows that immense spirits, and great business, do wield out this unaccented passion. You essential except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half(prenominal) match of the pudding stone of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawmaker; whereof the precedent was and so a gilded man, and immoderate; precisely the last mentioned was an stiff and intoxicating man: and thusly it seems (though rarely) that love jakes adjust entrance, not exactly into an decipherable heart, entirely withal into a heart substantially fortified, if ingest be not salutary kept.