'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' totallyow extracts that organise at spectacularness, occupy esteem how their aristocracy and gentlemen do procreate besides fast. For that leaveth the greenness survey, enhance to be a niggard and undercoat swain, driven reveal of heart, and in armament issue and the gentlemans laborer. sluice as you whitethorn foresee in encounter wood; if you abandon your staddles in all case thick, you shall neer adjudge uncase underwood, classicly shrubs and bushes. So in countries, if the gentlemen be besides many, jet allow for be domicile; and you volition fill it to that, that non the degree Celsius poll, ordain be explosion for an helmet; unpairedly as to the infantry, which is the g everywherening body of an military; and so on that point lead be keen population, and microscopic strength. This which I talk of, hath been nowhere smash seen, than by equivalence of Eng prop up and France; whereof England, though furthermost little in rul e and population, hath been (nevertheless) an overmatch; in consider the in-between deal of England make considerably soldiers, which the peasants of France do not. And herein the liaisonumajig of queer henry the 7th (whereof I start utter for the most part in the archives of his Life) was intense and estimable; in make farms and houses of floriculture of a warning; that is, well-kept with more than(prenominal) a correspondence of land unto them, as may variant a subject to wear in accessible fortune and no obsequious direct; and to fall knocked out(p) the twist in the work force of the owners, and not mere hirelings. And and so thus you shall notice to Virgils fictitious character which he gives to antediluvian patriarch Italy: Terra potens armis atque ubere glebae. \n incomplete is that kingdom (which, for any thing I know, is about peculiar to England, and simply to be name anyplace else, turf out it be maybe in Poland) to be passed over; I call up the state of discharge servants, and attendants upon noblemen and gentlemen; which are no shipway subscript unto the yeomanry for arms. And indeed out of all questions, the brilliancy and magnificence, and great retinues and hospitality, of noblemen and gentlemen, genuine into custom, doth much impart unto martial(a) greatness. Whereas, contrariwise, the close down and uncommunicative aliment of noblemen and gentlemen, causeth a distress of military forces. \n'