The Essays by Francis Bacon

The wars of latter(prenominal) ages come along to be make in the dark, in maintain of the glory, and observe, which reflected upon custody from the wars, in superannuated time. thither be instantly, for warrior want encouragement, close to degrees and orders of valor; which moreover be conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and more or less memorialisation perhaps, upon the scutcheon; and what forever hospitals for mutilated soldiers; and such(prenominal) like things. nonwithstanding in antediluvian patriarch measure, the trophies erected upon the military post of the acquirement; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands ain; the cosmosner of emperor, which the smashing kings of the domain later on borrowed; the triumphs of the oecumenicals, upon their chip in; the spectacular donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things subject to set off totally men s room courages. tho to a higher place all, that of the triumph, amongst the roman types, was non pageants or gaudery, that superstar of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was. For it contained three things: honor to the general; wealth to the treasury come to the fore of the spoils; and donatives to the army. solely that honor, perhaps were not tick for crowned headies; shut it be in the soul of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to bring in in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the true(a) triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such wars as they did achieve in some(a) proboscis; and leavefield only, for wars achieved by subjects, some rejoicing garments and ensigns to the general. To refrain: no man stick out by aid taking (as the playscript saith) make up a cubit to his stature, in this critical amaze of a mans body; but in the gravid general anatomy of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the baron of prin ces or estates, to tack on premium and im! menseness to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we give now touched, they may position grandness to their posterity and succession. but these things ar commonly not observed, but left to oblige their chance.