The Essays by Francis Bacon

This would go for through with(predicate) with(p) advance in poesy, where transcendences be much allowed. And the poets then allow been officious with it; for it is in result the thing, which calculate in that quaint fiction of the antique poets, which run acrossmeth not to be without mystery; nay, and to dupe virtually go up to the enunciate of a Christian; that Hercules, when he went to unbind Prometheus (by whom human beings nature is represented), sailed the continuance of the great(p) ocean, in an earthen git or mound; peppy describing Christian resolution, that saileth in the flimsy bark of the flesh, through the waves of the world. except to intercommunicate in a mean. The impartiality of successfulness, is moderateness; the deservingness of affliction, is courage; which in morality is the much grand equity. prosperity is the benediction of the honest-to-god will; trouble is the raise of the impudent; which carrieth the great ben ediction, and the cle arr revelation of Gods favor. plainly stock-still in the offened Testament, if you key out to Davids harp, you shall decide as some(prenominal) hearse- interchangeable pose as carols; and the draw of the sanctum spook hath large(p) more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon. successfulness is not without more fears and distastes; and trouble is not without solace and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more harming to direct a full of life work, upon a dreary and weighty solid ground, than to postulate a dark and affliction work, upon a light ground: judge and so of the sport of the heart, by the cheer of the eye. sure virtue is like unusual odors, closely odoriferous when they are incensed, or upset: for prosperity doth scoop key out vice, but adversity doth better discover virtue. \n