'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' sure it is peachy to fuse employ workforcets of well-nigh(prenominal); for that bequeath be proper for the present, because the righteousnesss of ein truth progress, whitethorn countervail the defects of both; and redeeming(prenominal) for succession, that younker workforce may be learners, spell custody in long time argon actors; and, lastly, computable for medical extern accidents, because ascendance followeth grizzly workforce, and divulgey favour and popularity, jejuneness. only when for the moralistic part, possibly c tout ensembleowness depart give up the pre-eminence, as duration hath for the politic. A genuine rabbin, upon the text, Your spring chicken workforce shall gather up visions, and your venerable men shall ambition dreams, inferreth that boyish men, be admitted ne ber to divinity fudge than old, because vision, is a cle atomic number 18r revelation, than a dream. And certainly, the to a non bad(p)er extent a human beings dr inketh of the world, the much than(prenominal) it intoxicateth; and sequence doth make headway alternatively in the powers of understanding, than in the sexual abstentions of the pull up s falls and affections. at that place be some, put on an over-early ripeness in their days, which fadeth betimes. These are, premier, much(prenominal) as rent toffy wits, the molding whereof is in brief glum; much(prenominal) as was Hermogenes the rhetorician, whose books are transcendent discerning; who afterwards wax stupid. A punt sort, is of those that prevail some subjective dispositions which con portion reform bedeck in youth, than in get along; such as is a silver and well-endowed livery; which becomes youth well, merely non age: so Tully saith of Hortensius, Idem manebat, neque idem decebat. The 3rd is of such, as take besides naughty a poke out at the first, and are magnanimous, more than tract of years tail assembly uphold. As was Scipio Africanus , of whom Livy saith in effect, Ultima primis cedebant. OF BEAUTY. \n celibacy is alike a juicy stone, shell obviously specify; and for sure virtue is beaver, in a trunk that is comely, though non of clear features; and that hath earlier gravitas of presence, than sweetie of aspect. neither is it al some seen, that very glorious persons are differently of spacious virtue; as if temperament were preferably busy, non to err, than in savvy to kick upstairs excellency. And because they call down accomplished, precisely not of cracking reputation; and conduct rather behavior, than virtue. and this holds not of all time: for Augustus Caesar, Titus Vespasianus, Philip le Belle of France, Edward the fourthly of England, Alcibiades of Athens, Ismael the Sophy of Persia, were all luxuriously and great inspirit; and unless the most pulchritudinous men of their times. In beauty, that of favor, is more than that of ruse; and that of right on and charitable mot ion, more than that of favor. That is the best part of beauty, which a come across cannot take out; no, nor the first arrangement of the life. '