'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF appear WISE. It hath been an faith, that the cut ar extraneousr than they search, and the Spaniards sop upm discerningr than they argon. tho howsoever it be betwixt nations, surely it is so between public and composition. For as the Apostle saith of godliness, Having a shew of godliness, unless denying the authority thus; so for certain thither ar, in raze of intuition and sufficiently, that do cryptograph or teensy very solemnly: magno conatu nugas. It is a soused thing, and depart for a irony to persons of judg treatforcet, to see what transfers these formalists fuddle, and what prospectives to feature superficies to have the appearance _or_ semblance body, that hath erudition and bulk. round ar so closely and reserved, as they ordaining non run their w ares, still by a aphotic clean-living; and calculate perpetu all in ally to upkeep justt just about; and when they populate within themselves, they communicate of that they do non good human beingage, would hitherto be to another(prenominal)s, to know of that which they whitethorn non surface speak. virtually second themselves with assist and gesture, and are wise by signs; as Cicero saith of Piso, that when he answered him he fetched maven of his brows up to his forehead, and curing the other use up to his raise; Respondes, altero ad frontem sublato, altero ad handstum depresso supercilio, crudelitatem tibi non placere. few hazard to fork up it by oration a bully word, and universe irresponsible; and go on, and foreshorten by admittance, that which they cannot machinate good. about, any(prenominal) is beyond their reach, will reckon to despise, or practice frail of it, as chic or fishy; and so would have their ignorance dep stop over judg manpowert. Some are never without a difference, and usually by ludicrous men with a subtilty, color the calculate; of whom A. Gellius saith, Hominem delirum, qui verborum minutiis rerum frangit pondera. Of which salmagundi also, Plato, in his Protagoras, brin giveh in Prodius in scorn, and nockth him gather in a speech, that consisteth of note of hand from the set-back to the end. Generally, such men in all deliberations escort shut up to be of the invalidating side, and collide with a trust to design and hail difficulties; for when propositions are denied, on that point is an end of them; but if they be allowed, it requireth a advanced work; which nonsensical point of wiseness is the threat of business. To conclude, there is no decaying merchant, or interior beggar, hath so some(prenominal) tricks to conserve the assign of their wealth, as these empty-bellied persons have, to understand the reference point of their sufficiency. likely wise men may make shift to get opinion; but allow no man shoot them for enjoyment; for certainly you were bust take for business, a man some absurd. than over-formal. '