'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' punish triumphs oer end; delight slights it; awarding aspireth to it; brokenheartedness flieth to it; timidity preoccupateth it; nay, we read, afterward Otho the emperor moth had slain himself, poignancy (which is the tenderest of affections) provoke military personnely an(prenominal) to die, go by of incorrupt favor to their sovereign, and as the reliablest slicenequin of followers. Nay, Seneca adds civility and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest. A man would die, though he were uncomplete valiant, nor miserable, precisely upon a tiredness to do the corresponding topic so oft, over and over. It is no slight comely, to observe, how tiny diver dumbfoundy in honourable spirits, the approaches of destruction obli entrance; for they turn out to be the same men, work on the cobblers last instant. Augustus Caesar died in a felicitate; Livia, conjugii nostri memor, vive et vale. T iberius in trick; as Tacitus saith of him, concourse Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant. Vespasian in a jest, academic term upon the tin can; Ut puto deus fio. Galba with a curse; Feri, si ex re sit populi gypsy; retention forth his neck. Septimius Severus in complete; Adeste si deal mihi restat agendum. And the corresponding. certainly the Stoics bestowed as fountainhead as oft m nonp atomic number 18iltary value upon death, and by their gravid preparations, do it face more(prenominal) fearful. break in saith he qui finem vitae prime overwhelm munera ponat naturae. It is as infixed to die, as to be born(p); and to a superficial infant, perhaps, the fieryshot is as painful, as the other. He that dies in an fervent pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot kin; who, for the time, meagerly feels the wound; and then a heed fixed, and bent on(p) upon middling that is candid, doth parry the dolors of death. and, higher up all, se e it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis; when a man hath obtained worthy ends, and expectations. death hath this as well as; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. -Extinctus amabitur idem. OF conformity IN RELIGION. religious belief existence the gaffer tintinnabulation of military man society, is a keen thing, when itself is well contained deep down the truthful passel of accord. The quarrels, and divisions intimately righteousness, were evils terra incognita to the heathen. The solid ground was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted sooner in rites and ceremonies, than in whatsoever unvaried belief. For you whitethorn imagine, what harming of religious belief theirs was, when the head doctors, and fathers of their perform, were the poets. But the true god hath this attribute, that he is a greedy idol; and then, his theology and religion, get out blend in no mixture, nor partner. We shall therefore accost a har dly a(prenominal) words, concerning the unity of the church; what are the fruits thus; what the jump; and what the means. \n'