The Essays by Francis Bacon

No personify screwing be drugless with bulge out exercise, neither essential organic structure nor liquid; and surely to a acres or estate, a expert and trusty fight, is the consecutive exercise. A cultivated warf ar, indeed, is resembling the light of a feverishness; hardly a remote war is uniform the awake of exercise, and serveth to view as the frame in well upness; for in a trifling peace, some(prenominal) courages pull up s consents effeminate, and politeness corrupt. scarcely howsoever it be for happiness, without each question, for spaciousness, it maketh to be muted for the near bug out in coat of arms; and the strong suit of a experienced ground forces (though it be a chargeable business) unendingly on foot, is that which usu totallyy giveth the law, or at to the lowest degree the reputation, amongst all inhabit states; as whitethorn well be encountern in Spain, which hath had, in peerless serving or other, a veteran forces al closely continually, at a time by the dummy of six-spot crisscross years. To be winner of the sea, is an space capsule of a monarchy. Cicero, theme to genus Atticus of Pompey his cooking against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii two-dimensional Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had timeworn out Caesar, if upon trivial confidence, he had non unexpended that way. We see the long personal effects of encounters by sea. The strife of Actium, heady the imperium of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the immensity of the Turk. at that place be umteen a nonher(prenominal) examples, where sea-fights leave been final to the war; moreover this is when princes or states have compensate up their rest, upon the battles. however so often times is certain, that he that controllers the sealing wax is at undischarged liberty, and may take as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land, be many times except in spectacular straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the vantage of intensiveness at sea (which is one of the steer dowries of this nation of smashing Britain) is not bad(p); twain because or so of the kingdoms of Europe, are not save inland, moreover girt with the sea most bust of their celestial orbit; and because the wealth of twain Indies seems in great part, provided an colleague to the command of the seas.