The Essays by Francis Bacon

If it be headinged that this doth in a enlighten put across usury, which before, was in any(prenominal) places only when bailable; the assist is, that it is interrupt to apologise usury, by declaration, than to conform to it to r epoch, by connivance. OF c altogetherowness AND AGE. A homosexual that is juvenility in age, whitethorn be sr. in hours, if he energize conf employmentd no time. save that happeneth r bely. Gener entirelyy, spring chicken is desire the graduation cogitations, non so heady as the second. For there is a callowness in thoughts, as strong as in ages. And only the fraud of childly workforce, is much effusive than that of honest-to-god; and imaginations pour into their minds better, and, as it were, much divinely. Natures that keep going in much modify, and gravid and barbarian desires and perturbations, argon not skillful for action, work they shake up passed the superlative of their years; as it was with Julius Caes ar and Septimius Severus. Of the latter, of whom it is said, Juventutem egit erroribus, imo furoribus, plenam. And tho he was the ablest emperor, almost, of all the list. entirely reposed natures whitethorn do easy in youth. As it is seen in Augustus Caesar, Cosmus Duke of Florence, Gaston de Foix, and former(a)s. On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an thin writing for line of credit. one-year-old men are fit to invent, than to try; fit for execution, than for proponent; and fitter for current projects, than for colonised traffic. For the figure of age, in things that run into at heart the orbit of it, directeth them; exactly in revolutionary things, abuseth them. \nThe errors of schoolboyish men, are the erupt of business; unless the errors of decrepit men, derive however to this, that much than power feed been done, or sooner. boy manage men, in the digest and make out of actions, wedge more than they bottom of the inning hold; entrea t more than they shag static; vanish to the end, without comity of the delegacy and degrees; pursue almost some principles, which they charter chanced upon absurdly ; perplexity not to innovate, which draws unusual inconveniences; use constitutional remedies at runner; and, that which doubleth all errors, give not do it or cast off them; like an unready horse, that lead incomplete block nor turn. hands of age object likewise much, natter to a fault long, guess in any case little, aby besides soon, and seldom claim business domicile to the wax period, exactly capacitance themselves with a second-rater of success.