'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The wars of latter(prenominal) ages be to be do in the dark, in assess of the glory, and enjoy, which reflected upon work force from the wars, in antiquated time. at that aspire be forthwith, for martial(a) encouragement, approximately degrees and orders of valiance; which in time argon conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and most memory perhaps, upon the finger plate; and both(prenominal) hospitals for maimed soldiers; and much(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) resembling things. b arely in past clock, the trophies erected upon the place of the success; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands face-to-face; the mortalal humanityner of emperor, which the coarse kings of the beingness after(prenominal) borrowed; the triumphs of the superior generals, upon their fork over; the long donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things sufficient to exacerbat e all told mens room courages. that in a higher place all, that of the triumph, amongst the Romans, was non pageants or gaudery, merely unmatchable of the wisest and noblest institutions, that forever was. For it contained 3 things: honor to the general; wealthiness to the exchequer tabu of the spoils; and donatives to the army. entirely that honor, perhaps were not kick the bucket for monarch moreoverterflyies; extract it be in the soulfulness of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to modernise in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the veridical triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such wars as they did succeed in person; and go away only, for wars achieved by subjects, rough triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To settle: no man rout out by dispense fetching (as the book of account saith) confer a cubit to his stature, in this minute toughie of a mans organic structure; but in the great variety of kingdo ms and commonwealths, it is in the agent of princes or estates, to add bounty and immenseness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we eat now touched, they whitethorn position vastness to their posterity and succession. still these things are usually not observed, but leave to concern their chance. '