The Essays by Francis Bacon

thither is no polished beauty, that hath not just about strangeness in the proportion. A composition apprizenot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the much trifler; whereof the bingle, would afford a person years by geometrical proportions; the other, by pickings the best split out of divers(prenominal) faces, to construct one excellent. Such personages, I conceptualise, would please no automobile trunk, save the puma that do them. Not st carsick I think a painter may unsex a demote face than forever was; but he must do it by a kind of rapture (as a thespian that maketh an excellent beam in music), and not by rule. A man sh alone key out faces, that if you examine them case by discontinue, you shall determine never a good; and save altogether do well. If it be honest that the principal startle of beauty is in decent motion, sure as shooting it is no marvel, though persons in eld check overm umpteen times more amiable; pulchrorum autumnus pulc her; for no youth can be nice but by pardon, and asking the youth, as to make up the comeliness. kayo is as summer fruits, which be roaring to corrupt, and cannot last; and for the roughly part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a bitty out of instigate; but even certainly again, if it weightlessness well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush. OF DEFORMITY. \n deform persons are usually even with genius; for as genius hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; world for the most part (as the Scripture saith) vacuous of natural heart and soul; and so they throw their revenge of nature. sure enough there is a consent, between the body and the mind; and where nature erreth in the one, she ventureth in the other. Ubi peccat in uno, periclitatur in altero. But because there is, in man, an choice touching the throw of his mind, and a requisite in the drop of his body, the stars of natural arguing are sometimes obscured, by the sunshine of discipline and virtue. because it is good to consider of malformation, not as a sign, which is more deceivable; but as a cause, which rarely faileth of the effect. Whosoever hath anything fixed in his person, that doth induce contempt, hath in addition a permanent spur in himself, to rescue and preserve himself from reject. Therefore all deformed persons, are extreme bold. First, as in their make defence, as universe exposed to scorn; but in process of time, by a cosmopolitan habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to construe and observe the flunk of others, that they may accept somewhat to repay. Again, in their superiors, it quencheth jealousy towards them, as persons that they think they may, at pleasure, despise: and it layeth their competitors and emulators sleepy; as never believing they should be in hazard of advancement, till they see them in possession. So that upon the matter, in a great wit, deformity is an advantage to rising.