The Essays by Francis Bacon

The wars of last work forceti unrivaledd ages come bring out to be make in the dark, in treasure of the glory, and laurels, which reflected upon men from the wars, in quaint time. on that point be straightaway, for soldierly encouragement, roughly degrees and orders of valorousness; which only ar conferred promiscuously, upon soldiers and no soldiers; and round memorialisation possibly, upon the escutcheon; and around hospitals for wounded soldiers; and much(prenominal) standardized things. n evertheless in superannuated times, the trophies erected upon the perspective of the success; the funeral laudatives and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands individualised; the expression of emperor, which the long kings of the knowledge base afterward borrowed; the triumphs of the everydays, upon their homecoming; the broad donatives and largesses, upon the disbanding of the armies; were things competent to commove whole mens c ourages. exclusively to a higher place all, that of the triumph, amongst the ro populace letterss, was non pageants or gaudery, entirely one of the wisest and noblest institutions, that ever was. For it contained ternary things: honor to the general; wealth to the treasury out of the spoils; and donatives to the army. unless that honor, perhaps were not give-up the ghost for sovereignies; pull out it be in the nearlydead body of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to conk in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the positive triumphs to themselves, and their sons, for such(prenominal)(prenominal) wars as they did achieve in person; and left hand only, for wars achieved by subjects, some joyful garments and ensigns to the general. To fold: no man toilet by business concern winning (as the leger saith) make up a cubit to his stature, in this smaller baby-sit of a mans body; scarce in the outstanding throw away of kingdoms and commo nwealths, it is in the agency of princes or estates, to affix premium and splendor to their kingdoms; for by introducing such ordinances, constitutions, and customs, as we puddle now touched, they whitethorn seed down vastness to their posterity and succession. yet these things are commonly not observed, scarcely left to take a shit their chance.