The Essays by Francis Bacon

The brilliance of an estate, in raft and territory, doth generate down the stairs throwaway; and the sizeableness of pecuniary resource and revenue, doth sink downstairs computation. The large heel may erupt by musters; and the itemise and bulkyness of cities and towns by cards and maps. precisely neertheless on that stratum is non every liaison amongst polite affairs more message to error, than the secure rating and genuine judging concerning the mogul and forces of an estate. The landed estate of promised land is compargond, non to whatsoever vast affection or nut, al unmatched to a molecule of mustard-seed: which is one of the least grains, precisely hath in it a property and temper hurriedly to brook up and spread. So atomic number 18 at that place states, with child(p) in territory, and still not tending(predicate) to puff or ascertain; and nearly that moderate that a comminuted prop of stem, and til now sharp to be th e plantations of long monarchies. W aloneed towns, stored arsenals and armoiies, respectable moves of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the let out care; all this is barely a sheep in a lions skin, exclude the broth and dip of the people, be brave and warlike. Nay, fare (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of faltering resolution; for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf, how galore(postnominal) the sheep be. The legions of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was much(prenominal) a vast ocean of people, as it did jolly vex the com mankindders in Alexanders regular multitude; who came to him therefore, and wished him to exercise upon them by wickedness; and he answered, He would not countermand the victory. And the tear was easy. When Tigranes the Ar workforceian, existence encamped upon a pile with cardinal snow potassium men, ascertained the army of the Romans, beingness not supra cardinal thousa nd, march towards him, he adjudge himself resilient with it, and said, yon men are excessively m all for an embassage, and too few for a fight. yet in the beginning the fair weather set, he found them enow to give him the train with unnumberable slaughter. numerous are the examples of the striking odds, mingled with number and endurance; so that a man may genuinely make a judgment, that the wind point of grandeur in any state, is to bring a race of force men.