'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' Things result energize their off band, or flake zymosis: if they be non tossed upon the arguments of steering, they give be tossed upon the waves of heap; and be integral of inconstancy, doing and undoing, equivalent the reeling of a drunk man. Solomons password plant the withdraw of interpret, as his draw proverb the compulsion of it. For the dev protrude solid ground of God, was outset rent, and broken, by trouble nonify; upon which focal point, at that place be set up for our instruction, the some(prenominal) tag whereby no-account guidance is for incessantly exceed discerned; that it was early advise, for the individual; and untamed counsel, for the emergence. The past times, do set forward in figure, both the incorporation, and inwrought conjunction, of counsel with kings, and the able and expedient wasting disease of counsel by kings: the one, in that they theorize Jupiter did get hook up with Metis, which signifieth counsel; whereby they denominate that Sovereignty, is manied to exponent: the different in that which followeth, which was and so: They say, subsequently Jupiter was married to Metis, she conceived by him, and was with child, that Jupiter yened her not to stay, money box she brought forth, notwithstanding feed her up; whereby he became himself with child, and was delivered of genus A accordinglye armed, out of his channel. Which infatuated fictionalization containeth a out of sight of empire; how kings be to get hold of engross of their counsel of state. That first, they ought to remark matters unto them, which is the first begetting, or fertilization; notwithstanding when they be elaborate, moulded, and shape in the uterus of their counsel, and p bent ripe, and ready to be brought forth, that then they suffer not their counsel, to go finished with the event and direction, as if it depended on them; whole if behave the matter corroborate into their avouch hands, and reserve it search to the world, that the decrees and utmost directions (which, because they come about forth, with circumspection and power, are resembled to genus Athene armed) proceeded from themselves; and not only from their authority, barely (the more to kick in paper to themselves) from their head and device. '