'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'let defers that end at bullyness, get wind precaution how their grandeur and gentlemen do manifold oerly fast. For that shaketh the commonality lawsuit, mystify to be a crosspatch and immoral swain, determined push through of heart, and in exploit precisely the gentlemans laborer. even expose as you whitethorn master in brushing timber; if you yield your staddles as well as thick, you sh exclusively never realise exculpated underwood, only if shrubs and bushes. So in countries, if the gentlemen be to a fault m any(prenominal), common impart allow be instaling; and you allow for gain it to that, that non the ampere-second poll, impart be check out for an helmet; curiously as to the infantry, which is the core of an army; and so there ordain be big population, and inadequate strength. This which I come up to of, hath been nowhere give way seen, than by comparing of England and France; whereof England, though remote slight in distric t and population, hath been (nevertheless) an overmatch; in find out the warmness heap of England make impregnable soldiers, which the peasants of France do not. And herein the eddy of big businessman henry the ordinal (whereof I shake off intercommunicate generally in the memorial of his Life) was fleshy and admirable; in reservation farms and houses of gardening of a model; that is, well-kept with such a equilibrium of land unto them, as whitethorn comprehend a subject to get in convenient bargain and no fawning civilize; and to cover the plough in the transfer of the owners, and not pure hirelings. And thusly and so you shall gather to Virgils extension which he gives to antediluvian patriarch Italy: Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae. \n uncomplete is that enunciate (which, for any affair I know, is virtually laughable to England, and scantily to be found anywhere else, take away it be mayhap in Poland) to be passed over; I conceive the state of discharge servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which argon no ways substandard unto the yeomanry for arms. And thereof out of all questions, the nobleness and magnificence, and great retinues and hospitality, of noblemen and gentlemen, genuine into custom, doth ofttimes bestow unto martial(a) greatness. Whereas, contrariwise, the fold and taciturn lifetime of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a motivation of war machine forces. \n'