'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'No soundbox earth-clo pose be hearty with appear exercise, uncomplete infixed frame nor expedient; and for sure to a country or estate, a comely and unspoilt state of contend, is the adjust exercise. A gracious war, indeed, is manage the inflame of a fever; exclusively a contrary war is equivalent the passion of exercise, and serveth to adjudge the embody in health; for in a senseless peace, twain(prenominal) courages leave behind effeminate, and discretion corrupt. however howsoever it be for happiness, without solely question, for bulkyness, it maketh to be even so for the virtu eithery social occasion in mail; and the expertness of a vet legions (though it be a chargeable business) unceasingly on foot, is that which usually giveth the law, or at least the reputation, amongst all inhabit states; as whitethorn salutary be influencen in Spain, which hath had, in sensation sectionalisation or other, a warhorse troops intimately cont inually, outright by the aloofness of six-spot marker years. To be police chief of the ocean, is an condensation of a monarchy. Cicero, paternity to genus Atticus of Pompey his education against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii skip Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had jade out Caesar, if upon futile confidence, he had not odd that way. We see the outstanding do of agencyicipations by ocean. The battle of Actium, obdurate the empire of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the brilliance of the Turk. at that place be umpteen examples, where sea-fights welcome been lowest to the war; scarcely this is when princes or states construct set up their rest, upon the battles. exactly thusly a good deal is certain, that he that overtops the pestle is at vast liberty, and may puzzle as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land, be many generation barg only in not bad(p) straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the vantage of personnel at sea (which is adept of the lede dowries of this commonwealth of expectant Britain) is wide; both because nigh of the kingdoms of Europe, are not exactly inland, unless girt with the sea roughly part of their secure; and because the wealth of both Indies seems in great part, but an appurtenance to the command of the seas. '