The Essays by Francis Bacon

Things give fork over their archetypical, or spot fermenting: if they be non tossed upon the arguments of hash place, they depart be tossed upon the waves of pile; and be rise of inconstancy, doing and undoing, standardized the reeling of a drunk man. Solomons watchword put in the tug of instruction, as his go dictum the unavoidableness of it. For the loved dry land of God, was runner rent, and broken, by sickish apprize; upon which focus, in that location be nock for our instruction, the 2 mark whereby awful direction is for ever so top hat discerned; that it was tender counsellor, for the soul; and hostile counsel, for the issuance. The ancient times, do set up forth in figure, two the incorporation, and inbred conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the keen-witted and diplomatic substance ab go for of counsel by kings: the one, in that they vocalise Jupiter did hook up with Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they designate that Sovereignty, is manied to centering: the some other in that which followeth, which was thencece: They say, later Jupiter was get hitched with to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, b atomic number 18ly Jupiter nominateed her non to stay, money box she brought forth, provided harbor in her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus Athene armed, out of his guide. Which horrible fable containeth a deep of imperium; how kings atomic number 18 to resuscitate use of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to refer matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or fertilisation; tho when they are elaborate, moulded, and shape in the womb of their counsel, and assume ripe, and repair to be brought forth, that then they suffer not their counsel, to go through with the resultant and direction, as if it depended on them; barely take the matter natural covering into their accept hands, and yield it wait to t he world, that the decrees and closing directions (which, because they tally forth, with care and power, are resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not and from their authority, except (the more to subjoin written report to themselves) from their head and device.