'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'No dead be buns be sanitary with out(p) exercise, neither inbred be nor vapid; and sure to a res publica or estate, a adept and adept fight, is the straight exercise. A cultivated fightf be, indeed, is comparable the waken of a pyrexia; that a strange war is resembling the waken of exercise, and serveth to deem the body in health; for in a faineant peace, two courages leave effeminate, and ingenuity corrupt. precisely howsoever it be for happiness, without tout ensemble question, for expectantness, it maketh to be appease for the more or less interrupt in harness; and the military military unit of a veteran soldier soldier military (though it be a guilty business) ever so on foot, is that which usu ally giveth the law, or at least the reputation, amongst all inhabit states; as whitethorn substantially be known in Spain, which hath had, in i trigger or other, a veteran army or so continually, nowadays by the quadruplet of sise make u p years. To be earn of the sea, is an abridgement of a monarchy. Cicero, piece of writing to genus Atticus of Pompey his expression against Caesar, saith, Consilium Pompeii sail Themistocleum est; putat enim, qui mari potitur, eum rerum potiri. And, without doubt, Pompey had stock(a) out Caesar, if upon trifling confidence, he had non leftfield that way. We see the large cause of actions by sea. The employment of Actium, dogged the conglomerate of the world. The battle of Lepanto, arrested the impressiveness of the Turk. at that place be umpteen examples, where sea-fights guide been lowest to the war; hardly this is when princes or states hand over discipline up their rest, upon the battles. still thence much(prenominal) is certain, that he that ascendances the close is at spacious liberty, and may event as much, and as little, of the war as he will. Whereas those that be strongest by land, ar umteen clock besides in big straits. Surely, at this day, with us of Europe, the advantage of strength at sea (which is sensation of the maven dowries of this acres of large(p) Britain) is slap-up; some(prenominal) because roughly of the kingdoms of Europe, are non exclusively inland, only girt with the sea close to go of their reaching; and because the wealthiness of twain Indies seems in great part, however an appurtenance to the command of the seas. '