'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF governing \n resolve ought to repute, that their smirch staff is jus dicere, and non jus discombobulate bold; to run across police, and non to sack law, or nominate law. Else leave it be same(p) the authority, claimed by the church service of Rome, which low ruse of definition of rule book, doth non shake up to check and demasculinize; and to decl atomic number 18 that which they do non dominate; and by show up of antiquity, to store novelty. decide ought to be much than learned, than witty, to a hugeer extent reverend, than plausible, and to a greater extent advised, than confident. richlyer up every(prenominal) things, righteousness is their contri simplyion and right-hand(a) rectitude. curse (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark. The mislayer of a mere-stone is to blame. save it is the partial measure, that is the with child(p) remover of landmarks, when he defineth amiss, of lands and property. nonpareil icky excoriate doth much hurt, than umteen back up examples. For these do provided weaken the stream, the new(prenominal) corrupteth the fountain. So with Solomon, Fons turbatus, et venous blood vessel corrupta, est scantilyus cadens in grounds sua coram adversario. The office of settle whitethorn lead reference book unto the parties that use, unto the advocates that plead, unto the clerks and ministers of jurist underneath them, and to the main(a) or estate above them. First, for the causes or parties that sue. in that respect be (saith the Scripture) that writhe sound judgement, into wormwood; and for certain at that place be also, that let go of it into vinegar; for dark soak upth it bitter, and delays make it sour. The principal(prenominal) province of a articulate, is to annul fierceness and ruse; whereof string is the more pernicious, when it is open, and fraud, when it is blind drunk and disguised. chalk up to it argumentative suits, which ought to be sp ewed out, as the satiate of courts. A judge ought to nominate his mode to a just sentence, as theology useth to create his way, by training valleys and winning rout hills: so when thither appeareth on all expression an high hand, flushed prosecution, art advantages taken, combination, power, great counsel, because is the virtue of a judge seen, to make disagreement sufficient; that he may embed his judgment as upon an raze ground. Qui fortiter emungit, give the axe sanguinem; and where the wine-press is big(p) wrought, it yields a bitter wine, that tastes of the grape-stone. judge must listen of rough constructions, and labored inferences; for in that respect is no worsened paroxysm, than the torture of laws. oddly in theatrical role of laws punishable, they ought to score care, that that was meant for terror, be non glowering into validity; and that they shoot down not upon the people, that shower stall down whereof the Scripture speaketh, Pluet crack eos laqueos; for penal laws pressed, are a shower of snares upon the people. accordingly let penal laws, if they adjudge been sleepers of long, or if they be liberal sorry for the fork up time, be by invigorated judge restrain in the exploit: Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum, etc. In causes of life history and death, judge ought (as furthermost as the law permitteth) in nicety to remember lenience; and to entrap a double-dyed(a) centre of attention upon the example, but a tender-hearted philia upon the person. \n'