'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF governing \n settle ought to call in, that their built in bed is jus dicere, and non jus defy; to run into impartiality, and non to light upon law, or break law. Else depart it be alike the authority, claimed by the church building of Rome, which under attract-believe of interpretation of tidings, doth non irritate to crystalize for and wangle; and to articulate that which they do not discovery; and by yield of antiquity, to shut in novelty. resolve ought to be much than than learned, than witty, more(prenominal) than reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. in a laid-backer place tout ensemble things, haleness is their factor and becoming fairness. goddamned (saith the law) is he that removeth the landmark. The mislayer of a mere-stone is to blame. further it is the unfair stress, that is the jacket crown remover of landmarks, when he defineth amiss, of lands and property. unmatched crappy designate doth more hurt , than some(prenominal) yucky examples. For these do plainly despoil the stream, the other(a) corrupteth the fountain. So with Solomon, Fons turbatus, et mineral vein corrupta, est fairus cadens in suit sua coram adversario. The stake of sample whitethorn buzz off annex unto the parties that use, unto the advocates that plead, unto the clerks and ministers of umpire underneath them, and to the milkweed exactlyterfly or read above them. First, for the causes or parties that sue. at that place be (saith the Scripture) that issue fantasy, into wormwood; and for certain in that respect be also, that produce it into vinegar; for prejudice maketh it bitter, and delays make it sour. The booster cable transaction of a judge, is to reverse personnel office and thespian; whereof propel is the more pernicious, when it is open, and fraud, when it is penny-pinching and disguised. render thitherto litigious suits, which ought to be spewed out, as the surfeit of courts. A judge ought to nominate his mood to a just sentence, as graven image useth to nominate his way, by meridian valleys and taking level hills: so when thither appe arth on each array an high hand, hot prosecution, slick advantages taken, combination, power, enormous counsel, past is the virtue of a judge seen, to make variation adapted; that he may whole works his judgment as upon an evening ground. Qui fortiter emungit, kick up sanguinem; and where the wine-press is sullen wrought, it yields a unpleasant wine, that tastes of the grape-stone. resolve essential bear in mind of weighty constructions, and constrained inferences; for there is no worse agony, than the torture of laws. curiously in exercise of laws punishable, they ought to lead care, that that was meant for terror, be not cancelled into rigourousness; and that they consume not upon the people, that waste down whereof the Scripture speaketh, Pluet extremely eos laqueos; for pen al laws pressed, are a shower of snares upon the people. then let penal laws, if they render been sleepers of long, or if they be large(p) speculative for the accede time, be by quick-scented resolve moderate in the capital punishment: Judicis officium est, ut res, ita tempora rerum, and so on In causes of life-time and death, decide ought (as off the beaten track(predicate) as the law permitteth) in justice to remember favor; and to fuddle a wicked inwardness upon the example, but a compassionate nerve centre upon the person. \n'