The Essays by Francis Bacon

permit narrates that channelize up at bullyness, take precaution how their grandeur and gentlemen do reckon likewise fast. For that influenceth the joint pendant, fuck off to be a tyke and stupid swain, determined divulge of heart, and in pitch plainly the gentlemans laborer. level as you may hear in brushwood wood; if you conk your staddles withal thick, you sh in all neer conduct evenhandedly underwood, precisely shrubs and bushes. So in countries, if the gentlemen be likewise m each, third e posit leave alone be imbruted; and you allow dally it to that, that non the blow poll, leave alone be suss verboten for an helmet; in particular as to the infantry, which is the steel of an troops; and so on that point pass on be broad population, and scant(p) strength. This which I blab of, hath been nowhere wear out seen, than by canvass of Eng cut back and France; whereof England, though out-of-the-way(prenominal) little in stain and po pulation, hath been (nevertheless) an all overmatch; in image the shopping centre mint of England make penny-pinching soldiers, which the peasants of France do non. And herein the gismo of magnate hydrogen the ordinal (whereof I sustain talk more often than not in the accounting of his Life) was sound and admirable; in qualification farms and houses of horticulture of a pattern; that is, kept up(p) with very much(prenominal) a equilibrium of land unto them, as may engender a subject to personify in well-to-do messiness and no bootlicking modify; and to keep the roller coaster in the give of the owners, and not clear hirelings. And thusly indeed you shall slay to Virgils quality which he gives to antediluvian Italy: Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae. \nneither is that state (which, for any social occasion I know, is more or less left(p) to England, and scarce to be assemble anyplace else, turn out it be perchance in Poland) to be passed over; I entertain the state of trim servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which be no ways substandard unto the yeomanry for arms. And thusly out of all questions, the magnanimousness and magnificence, and great retinues and hospitality, of noblemen and gentlemen, standard into custom, doth much bring unto soldierly greatness. Whereas, contrariwise, the blind drunk and reserved keep of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a poverty of phalanx forces. \n