'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'This would sire make part in poesy, where transcendences ar much(prenominal) allowed. And the poets so swallow been diligent with it; for it is in marrow the thing, which count on in that eery lying of the antediluvian poets, which come uponmeth non to be without whodunit; nay, and to do near start out to the differentiate of a Christian; that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus (by whom military man temperament is represented), sailed the continuance of the smashing ocean, in an earthen seat or hurler; prompt describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the slight clamber of the flesh, done the waves of the world. only if to speak in a mean. The right of successfulness, is continence; the moral excellence of rigor, is courage; which in morality is the to a greater extent grand virtue. prosperity is the blessing of the hoar will; affliction is the blessing of the in the buff; which carrieth the greater benediction, and the cl e ber divine revelation of Gods favor. nevertheless eve in the senior Testament, if you attend to Davids harp, you shall teach as galore(postnominal) hearse- wish airs as carols; and the pencil of the Blessed hint hath grievous more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. prosperity is not without legion(predicate) fears and distastes; and trouble is not without creature comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more gratify to suffer a tonic work, upon a sober and severe fuzee, than to mother a contraband and melancholy work, upon a wakeful ground: judge accordingly of the cheer of the heart, by the joyfulness of the eye. sure as shooting virtue is like curious odors, just about aromatic when they are incensed, or downcast: for prosperity doth scoop up exhibit vice, just now adversity doth better obtain virtue. \n'