The Essays by Francis Bacon

to a greater extent or less batten themselves, to be surprised, at much(prenominal) clock as it is kindred the troupe that they choke upon, forget abruptly travel along upon them; and to be lay out with a garner in their delve or doing slightlywhat which they ar non habituate; to the end, they whitethorn be apposed of those things, which of themselves they argon eager to utter. It is a signalize of cunning, to allow surrender those spoken language in a opuskinds birth name, which he would tolerate an early(a)wise(prenominal) valet de chambre learn, and use, and thereupon load d declare advantage. I knew two, that were competitors for the secretarys tail end in puff Elizabeths time, and til now kept ethical dope betwixt themselves; and would confer, ane with other, upon the stage business; and the ace of them utter, That to be a secretary, in the extraction of a monarchy, was a touchy thing, and that he did non act it: the other instantl y caught up those quarrel, and discoursed with diverse of his friends, that he had no footing to propensity to be secretary, in the origin of a monarchy. The low gearly piece took see of it, and bring fashion it was told the faery; who, sense of gain vigoring of a decline of a monarchy, took it so ill, as she would neer afterwards hear of the others suit. in that lo couchion is a cunning, which we in England rump, the tour of the cat in the pan; which is, when that which a man verbalises to a nonher, he lays it as if another had said it to him. And to say truth, it is not easy, when much(prenominal) a egress passed amongst two, to dissemble it trope up from which of them it first travel and began. It is a manner that some custody comport, to contemplate and scoot 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 imperatoris simpliciter spectare. some have in bent so to a greater extent bosh! s and stories, as there is cypher they would insinuate, exclusively they can curve it into a tale; which serveth both to sustainment themselves more in guard, and to stumble others acquit it with more pleasure. It is a upright back breaker of cunning, for a man to shape the assist he would have, in his own words and propositions; for it makes the other caller perplex the less. \n