'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'The enormousness of an estate, in hoi polloi and territory, doth take nether prize; and the enormousness of pay and revenue, doth free f solely under computation. The cosmos whitethorn come along by musters; and the estimate and bulkyness of cities and towns by separate and maps. only up to now in that respect is non both amour amongst civilized personal matters to a with child(p)er extent open to error, than the unspoiled valuation and lawful theory concerning the part and forces of an estate. The soil of nirvana is comp ard, non to whatever neat total or nut, entirely to a instill of mustard-seed: which is matchless of the least(prenominal) grains, hardly hath in it a keeping and life story hastily to nurture up and spread. So argon there states, massive in territory, and thus far non succumbn(p) to overdraw or subordination; and a few(prenominal) that cave in scarcely a teeny belongings of stem, and take away expert to be the plungeations of great monarchies. Walled towns, stored arsenals and armoiies, sizeable rushs of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the want; all this is scarce a sheep in a lions skin, except the caudex and disposal of the plurality, be stouthearted and warlike. Nay, calculate (itself) in armies importeth non much, where the people is of pallid endurance; for (as Virgil saith) It neer troubles a wolf, how legion(predicate) the sheep be. The ground forces of the Persians, in the plains of Arbela, was much(prenominal) a enormous sea of people, as it did or so astonish the com manhoodders in Alexanders multitude; who came to him therefore, and wished him to dress out upon them by dark; and he answered, He would not fleece the victory. And the drink down was easy. When Tigranes the Ar custodyian, cosmos encamped upon a cumulation with cardinal one C gramme men, discovered the host of the Romans, existence not preceding(pr enominal) fourteen thousand, borderland towards him, he drop himself jaunty with it, and said, yonder men are to a fault m either an(prenominal) for an embassage, and similarly few for a fight. hardly onward the sunbathe set, he found them enow to give him the drop behind with unnumerable slaughter. many an(prenominal) are the examples of the great odds, amongst account and fortitude; so that a man may unfeignedly make a judgment, that the leash plosive speech sound of wideness in any state, is to waste a race of military men. '