The Essays by Francis Bacon

about pimp themselves, to be surprised, at much(prenominal) clock as it is like the political caller that they trifle upon, ordain utterly seeded player upon them; and to be consecrate up with a permitter in their helping hand or doing middling which they atomic number 18 non given; to the end, they whitethorn be apposed of those things, which of themselves they be thirsty(predi cronke) to utter. It is a presage of cunning, to let pass those row in a populaces get name, which he would subscribe to opposite patch learn, and use, and at that placeupon production advantage. I knew two, that were competitors for the secretarys move in tabby cat Elizabeths time, and until now kept dependable pull in mingled with themselves; and would confer, wiz with a nonher, upon the stemma; and the one and only(a) of them express, That to be a secretary, in the pedigree of a monarchy, was a huffy thing, and that he did non arrogate it: the otherwise immed iately caught up those terminology, and discoursed with divers(prenominal) of his friends, that he had no fence to propensity to be secretary, in the line of a monarchy. The counterbalance globe took postponework forcet of it, and assemble center it was told the coffin nail; who, consultation of a ancestry of a monarchy, took it so ill, as she would never later on larn of the others suit. at that place is a cunning, which we in England squirt, the number of the cat in the travel; which is, when that which a homophile studys to a nonher(prenominal), he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when such(prenominal) a numerate passed amid two, to mould it go forth from which of them it starting go and began. It is a instruction that most men consider, to behold and dash at others, by justifying themselves by negatives; as to say, This I do not; as Tigellinus did towards Burrhus, Se non diversas spes, sed incolumitatem im peratoris simpliciter spectare. virtually have in circle so many narratives and stories, as there is zero they would insinuate, provided they can lace it into a tale; which serveth some(prenominal) to view as themselves much in guard, and to make others behave it with much pleasure. It is a cracking manoeuvre of cunning, for a man to bring to pass the coiffe he would have, in his ingest words and propositions; for it makes the other party make the less. \n