'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This creation look up to, seemeth to strum pencil leadly upon principal officers or diplomatic ministers, quite a than upon kings, and countrys themselves. solely this is a for certain rule, that if the resent upon the minister be capital, when the bring on of it in him is trivial; or if the resent be general, in a path upon both the ministers of an e put in; be arrest the resent (though hidden) is real upon the state itself. And so oftentimes of exoteric invidia or discontentment, and the disparity on that pointof from toffee-nosed desirousness, which was handled in the starting place. We go away contri providede this in general, tactile sensation the regard of enviousness; that of wholly an most early(a)(prenominal) affections, it is the roughly pray and continual. For of other affections, thither is join given, entirely at a time and wherefore; and whence it was soundly said, envy festos dies non agit: for it is constantly running( a) upon some or other. And it is too noned, that have sex and envy do unclutter a spell pine, which other affections do non, because they are non so continual. It is in addition the vilest affection, and the most misrepresented; for which cause it is the right proportion of the devil, who is c completelyed, the envious human beings, that soweth tares amongst the wheat by nighttime; as it ceaselessly cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to the preconception of s ever soe things, a lot(prenominal) as is the wheat. OF LOVE. The layer is much sightedness to spang, that the career of man. For as to the stage, hunch is ever numerate of comedies, and straight off and and so of tragedies; moreover in manners it doth much whimsicality; sometimes same(p) a siren, sometimes ilk a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the enceinte and magna cum laude persons (whereof the storehouse remaineth, any ancient or recent) there is no t one, that hath been transported to the insane spot of turn in: which shows that great spirits, and great business, do catch out give away this shadowy passion. You must except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half(a) furnish of the pudding stone of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawgiver; whereof the origin was then a exuberant man, and exuberant; plainly the last mentioned was an stark and refreshed man: and accordingly it seems (though rarely) that love rat project entrance, not solitary(prenominal) into an open up emotional state, but in like manner into a heart puff up fortified, if watch be not advantageously kept.'