培根散文集（英文全本）更新669章全集TXT下载,精彩无弹窗下载,(英)弗兰西斯·培根

base and

effeminate

people,

are

failing.

For Solon

said well

to Cr?sus

(when in

ostentation

he shewed

him his

gold),

Sir, if

any other

come that

hath

better

iron than

you, he

will be

master of

all this

gold.

Therefore

let any

prince or

state

think

solely of

his

forces,

except his

militia of

natives be

of good

and

valiant

soldiers.

And let

princes,

on the

other

side, that

have

subjects

of martial

disposition,

know their

own