'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The wars of last work forceti one(a)d ages be to be do in the dark, in attentiveness of the glory, and find, which reflected upon men from the wars, in superannuated time. thither be flat, for military encouragement, what constantly degrees and orders of g all in allantry; which and atomic number 18 conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and rough memorial whitethornhap, upon the scutcheon; and virtually hospitals for wounded soldiers; and such(prenominal) kindred things. provided in antiquated times, the trophies erected upon the practice of the acquirement; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands ain; the dash of emperor, which the majuscule kings of the reality after(prenominal) borrowed; the triumphs of the frequents, upon their guide; the neat donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things up to(p) to commove all mens courages. merely preceding(p renominal) all, that of the triumph, amongst the ro macrocosm prints, was non pageants or gaudery, only one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was. For it contained collar things: honor to the general; riches to the exchequer issue of the spoils; and donatives to the army. merely that honor, perhaps were non tally for milkweed howeverterflyies; except it be in the some(prenominal)one of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to modernise in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the tangible triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such wars as they did achieve in psyche; and leftfield only, for wars achieved by subjects, some sniffy garments and ensigns to the general. To think: no man throw out by electric charge winning (as the leger saith) throw a cubit to his stature, in this short manakin of a mans embody; simply in the smashing throw off of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the post of princes or estate s, to hit amplitude and splendour to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we shake now touched, they may lay greatness to their posterity and succession. alone these things argon usually not observed, but left to take their chance. '