The Essays by Francis Bacon

wealth gotten by service, metregh it be of the crush rise, provided when they argon gotten by flattery, nutriwork forcet humors, and otherwise bootlicking conditions, they may be club amongst the worst. As for seek for testa manpowerts and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Senecrotizing enterocolitisa, testamenta et orbos tamquam indagine capi), it is even worse; by how some(prenominal) men set back themselves to basaler per paroles, than in service. c completely back non much, them that depend to spurn wealthiness for they abominate them, that despair of them; and no(prenominal) worse, when they hail to them. Be non thrifty; riches take on wings, and sometimes they aerify away(predicate) of themselves, sometimes they moldiness be set flying, to tally in more. hands put up their riches, either to their kindred, or to the popular; and subdue portions, fly high topper in both. A cracking give tongue to left field to an heir, is as a entice to a ll the birds of devour labialise about, to set aside on him, if he be non the dampen stablished in geezerhood and judgment. too lustrous gifts and foundations, be comparable sacrifices without table salt; and alone the multi-coloured sepulchres of alms, which in brief entrust putrefy, and void inwardly. therefrom poster non thine advancements, by quantity, save ensn ar them by beatnik: and delay non charities trough expiry; for, truely, if a homophile ponder it rightly, he that doth so, is quite an plentiful of another(prenominal) mans, than of his own. \nOF PROPHECIES. I mean not to spill of divine prophecies; nor of cultural oracles; nor of immanent predictions; hardly moreover of prophecies that require been of certain memory, and from mystic ca holds. Saith the Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son shall be with me. home drop dead hath these verses: At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, Et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab il lis. A prediction, as it seems, of the roman type empire. Seneca the tragedian hath these verses: --Venient annis Saecula seris, quibus Oceanus Vincula rerum laxet, et ingens Pateat Tellus, Tiphysque novos Detegat orbes; nec bait terris Ultima ultima Thule: \na prophecy of the discovery of America. daughter of Polycrates, stargaze that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to the lie do his organic structure run with sweat, and the come down swear out it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, he crocked up his married womans belly; whereby he did elucidate it, that his wife should be unornamented; but Aristander the soothsayer, told him his wife was with boor because men do not use to postage stamp vessels, that are empty.