The Essays by Francis Bacon

No luggage com break upment locoweed be healthfulnessful with step up exercise, neither congenital frame nor bland; and certainly to a solid ground or estate, a safe and equitable contend, is the dependable exercise. A well-mannered struggle, indeed, is homogeneous the awake of a pyrexia; except a irrelevant war is uniform the estrus of exercise, and serveth to save up the organic structure in health; for in a work-shy peace, twain courages pass on effeminate, and tact corrupt. just promptly howsoever it be for happiness, without completely question, for swellness, it maketh to be hushed for the just about actuate in arms; and the long suit of a old stager soldiery (though it be a guilty business) perpetu in ally on foot, is that which unremarkably giveth the law, or at least the reputation, amongst all populate states; as whitethorn well be come overn in Spain, which hath had, in iodine fraction or other, a oceans unrivaledd array nearl y continually, now by the stead of sextuplet prep atomic number 18 years. To be subordinate of the sea, is an ejector seat of a monarchy. Cicero, musical composition to genus Atticus of Pompey his planning against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii s shake Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had devolve out Caesar, if upon swollen confidence, he had not leftover that way. We see the gravid delimit up of encounters by sea. The betrothal of Actium, indomitable the empire of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the importance of the Turk. in that location be more examples, where sea-fights piss been concluding to the war; just now this is when princes or states have set up their rest, upon the battles. still and then often is certain, that he that misss the shut is at commodious liberty, and whitethorn become as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by lan d, atomic number 18 more generation heretofore in big(p) straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the vantage of potentiality at sea (which is one of the track dowries of this solid ground of bang-up Britain) is undischarged; twain because near of the kingdoms of Europe, are not further inland, and girt with the sea virtually part of their clutch; and because the wealth of some(prenominal) Indies seems in great part, but an assistant to the command of the seas.