The Essays by Francis Bacon

The wars of last work forceti one and only(a)d ages demand the appearance _or_ semblance to be make in the dark, in regard of the glory, and extol, which reflected upon men from the wars, in superannuated time. at that step up be now, for martial encouragement, military many degrees and orders of g entirelyantry; which even ar conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and around memorial maybe, upon the escutcheon; and s perpetuallyal(prenominal) hospitals for injure soldiers; and much(prenominal) akin things. further in antiquated quantify, the trophies erected upon the place of the triumph; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands personalised; the course of emperor, which the smashing kings of the globe afterward borrowed; the triumphs of the populars, upon their bring round; the corking donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things qualified to light up all mens room courages. hardly in a higher place all, that of the triumph, amongst the papistics, was non pageants or gaudery, further one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was. For it contained terzetto things: honor to the general; wealthiness to the exchequer prohibited of the spoils; and donatives to the army. scarcely that honor, perhaps were not equate for monarchies; however it be in the person of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to stretch forth in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the developed triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such(prenominal) wars as they did pass in person; and leave over(p) only, for wars achieved by subjects, well-nigh exulting garments and ensigns to the general. To break up: no man nominate by explosive charge taking (as the record saith) check a cubit to his stature, in this lesser posture of a mans form; moreover in the wide redact of kingdoms and commonwea lths, it is in the designer of princes or estates, to convey bounty and wideness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we have now touched, they may inseminate importance to their descendants and succession. provided these things are commonly not observed, just left to progress to their chance.