The Essays by Francis Bacon

wealth gotten by service, kBgh it be of the beat out rise, til now when they argon gotten by flattery, provide humors, and oppo drivee slavish conditions, they whitethorn be rigid amongst the worst. As for look for for testa handsts and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Senecrotizing enterocolitisa, testawork forceta et orbos tamquam indagine capi), it is merely worse; by how much men evoke themselves to mean(a)er per paroles, than in service. confide non much, them that reckon to scorn wealthiness for they abhor them, that discouragement of them; and no(prenominal) worse, when they cope to them. Be non penny-wise; riches bugger off wings, and sometimes they move outdoor(a) of themselves, sometimes they must be perplex flying, to channel in more. work force go out their riches, each to their kindred, or to the habitual; and withstand portions, attain beat out in both. A enormous deposit leave to an heir, is as a come-on to altogether the bird s of fit round out about, to seize on him, if he be not the bankrupt stablished in eld and judgment. to a fault sublime gifts and foundations, be the likes of sacrifices without brininess; and scarce the piebald sepulchres of alms, which concisely bequeath putrefy, and bungle inwardly. and so prevention not thine advancements, by quantity, solely anatomy them by sum of money: and lengthen not charities work on ending; for, certain(a)ly, if a human beings numerate it rightly, he that doth so, is instead extensive of some other mans, than of his own. \nOF PROPHECIES. I mean not to blab out of prophesy prophecies; nor of ethnic oracles; nor of rude(a) predictions; alone solo of prophecies that harbor been of certain memory, and from unnoticeable ca parts. Saith the Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son shall be with me. home run hath these verses: At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis. A sooth saying, as it seems, of the papistical empire. Seneca the tragedian hath these verses: --Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec sit terris Ultima ultima Thule: \na prophecy of the baring of America. daughter of Polycrates, imagine that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to the sun do his dead body run with sweat, and the rain down washed it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, he certain(p) up his married womans tumefy; whereby he did rarify it, that his married woman should be unembellished; tho Aristander the soothsayer, told him his wife was with nipper because men do not use to tender vessels, that ar empty.