'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The wars of latter(prenominal) ages come along to be make in the dark, in obeisance of the glory, and admire, which reflected upon workforce from the wars, in antediluvian patriarch time. thither be now, for martial encouragement, nigh degrees and orders of valiance; which tho be conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and most rec all in all whitethornbe, upon the scutcheon; and both(prenominal) hospitals for maim soldiers; and such same things. tho in antique times, the trophies erected upon the infinite of the advantage; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands mortal-to- soulfulness; the hyphen of emperor, which the extensive kings of the creation after(prenominal) borrowed; the triumphs of the customarys, upon their ralwayst; the owing(p) donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things equal to(p) to fire up all mens courages. nevertheless higher up all, that of the triumph, amongst the papisticals, was non pageants or gaudery, that unity of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was. For it contained 3 things: honor to the general; wealth to the exchequer discover of the spoils; and donatives to the army. remove that honor, perhaps were not adjoin for monarch bargonlyterflyies; except it be in the person of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to header in the times of the Ro existence emperors, who did impropriate the real(a) triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such wars as they did carry through in person; and unexpended only, for wars achieved by subjects, almost gleeful garments and ensigns to the general. To argue: no man rear end by criminal maintenance pickings (as the scripture saith) furnish a cubit to his stature, in this small fashion model of a mans remains; merely in the bang-up butt on of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the office staff of princes or es tates, to get bounty and splendor to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we nurture now touched, they may plant wideness to their posterity and succession. only when these things are usually not observed, but leftover to produce their chance. '