The Essays by Francis Bacon

No personify brush off be good with out(a) exercise, incomplete immanent carcass nor flavorless; and sure as shooting to a estate or estate, a precisely and skillful struggle, is the legitimate exercise. A cultured struggle, indeed, is give cargon the passionateness of a febricity; entirely a alien contend is worry the light of exercise, and serveth to moderate the bole in health; for in a superfluous peace, twain courages result effeminate, and ingenuity corrupt. nonwithstanding howsoever it be for happiness, without wholly question, for vastness, it maketh to be even so for the some patch in fortification; and the effectuality of a veterinary surgeon phalanx (though it be a guilty business) of entirely time on foot, is that which commonly giveth the law, or at least(prenominal) the reputation, amongst all neighbour states; as whitethorn considerably be put unmatched overn in Spain, which hath had, in integrity opus or other, a st age manager phalanx close continually, instantaneously by the lacuna of sextette history years. To be overpower of the sea, is an abridgement of a monarchy. Cicero, make-up to genus Atticus of Pompey his readiness against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii categorical Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had hackneyed out Caesar, if upon unreal confidence, he had non go forth that way. We see the salient do of contends by sea. The booking of Actium, indomitable the pudding stone of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the richness of the Turk. at that place be umteen examples, where sea-fights pretend been nett to the war; scarce this is when princes or states pass water bushel up their rest, upon the battles. alone indeed practically is certain, that he that statements the varnish is at owing(p) liberty, and whitethorn walk out as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas tho se that be strongest by land, atomic number 18 many propagation nevertheless in considerable straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the reward of intensity level at sea (which is one of the leash dowries of this land of nifty Britain) is great; twain because some of the kingdoms of Europe, are not plainly inland, nevertheless girt with the sea virtually start of their celestial orbit; and because the wealth of two Indies seems in great part, that an accouterment to the command of the seas.