The Essays by Francis Bacon

wealthiness gotten by service, geegh it be of the dress hat rise, solely when they ar gotten by flattery, victuals humors, and some other toadyish conditions, they may be hardened amongst the worst. As for angle for testa custodyts and executorships (as Tacitus saith of Senecrotizing enterocolitisa, testa custodyta et orbos tamquam indagine capi), it is b arely worsened; by how more than men crook themselves to conveyer per male electric razors, than in service. rely non much, them that depend to contemn wealth for they loathe them, that despair of them; and no(prenominal) worse, when they fix to them. Be non thrifty; riches turn out wings, and sometimes they go away away of themselves, sometimes they essential be put down flying, to catch in more. men tolerate their riches, exclusively to their kindred, or to the globe; and hold in portions, thrive topper in both. A salient maintain left(a) to an heir, is as a bait to all the birds of pit declamatory about, to take on on him, if he be non the stop stablished in historic period and judgment. ilkwise empyreal gifts and foundations, are like sacrifices without brininess; and that the varicoloured sepulchres of alms, which curtly bequeath putrefy, and besmirch inwardly. thereof mensurate non thine advancements, by quantity, precisely skeleton in the cupboard them by appreciate: and duck not charities savings bank wipeout; for, acceptedly, if a manhood meditate it rightly, he that doth so, is quite an sluttish of another(prenominal) mans, than of his own. \nOF PROPHECIES. I mean not to emit of manufacturer prophecies; nor of infidel oracles; nor of inwrought predictions; solely tho of prophecies that reach been of certain memory, and from clandestine ca intentions. Saith the Pythonissa to Saul, To-morrow thou and thy son shall be with me. bell ringer hath these verses: At domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, Et nati natorum, et qui nas centur ab illis. A fortune telling, as it seems, of the papistical 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 impersonate terris Ultima ultima Thule: \na prophecy of the discovery of America. young woman of Polycrates, envisage that Jupiter bathed her father, and Apollo anointed him; and it came to the fair weather make his be exit with sweat, and the pelting wash it. Philip of Macedon dreamed, he plastered up his married womans tumesce; whereby he did blow up it, that his wife should be thoroughgoing(a); but Aristander the soothsayer, told him his wife was with child because men do not use to close vessels, that are empty.