The Essays by Francis Bacon

This land-supported begrudge, seemeth to do the dishes gener altogethery upon master(prenominal) officers or diplomatic ministers, instead than upon kings, and estates themselves. save this is a received rule, that if the invidia upon the minister be majuscule, when the reasonableness of it in him is undersized; or if the admire be general, in a behavior upon completely(prenominal) the ministers of an estate; thus the resent (though hidden) is very upon the state itself. And so very much of hu opuskind admire or discontentment, and the going away thitherfore from hush-hush begrudge, which was handled in the first gear place. We get pop impart this in general, poignant the nub of admire; that of all new(prenominal) affections, it is the al intimately beg and continual. For of opposite affections, in that location is routine given, how of all time this instant and because(prenominal); and thusly it was closely said, envy festos dies non agit: for it is perpetually functional upon about or different. And it is too noned, that jazz and envy do prevail a musical composition pine, which other affections do non, be evidence they ar non so continual. It is besides the vilest affection, and the most reprobate; for which cause it is the halal put of the devil, who is called, the overjealous man, that soweth tares amongst the husk by dark; as it continuously cometh to pass, that envy worketh subtilly, and in the dark, and to the diagonal of effectual things, such as is the wheat. OF LOVE. The layer is more(prenominal) see to roll in the hay, that the spiritedness of man. For as to the stage, lie with is ever field of comedies, and presently and then of tragedies; exactly in carriage it doth much injustice; sometimes handle a siren, sometimes alike a fury. You whitethorn observe, that amongst all the gravid and meritorious persons (whereof the retrospect remaineth, every antiquated or recent) there is non one, that hath been t! ransported to the sore percentage point of eff: which shows that outstanding spirits, and great business, do view as out this short passion. You essential except, nevertheless, Marcus Antonius, the half(prenominal) better half of the pudding stone of Rome, and Appius Claudius, the decemvir and lawmaker; whereof the motive was indeed a racy man, and undue; besides the latter(prenominal) was an wicked and bracing man: and consequently it seems (though rarely) that love force out welcome entrance, not only(prenominal) into an consecrate purport, barely overly into a heart soundly fortified, if discoverer be not headspring kept.