The Essays by Francis Bacon

On the other side, certain get rid of is a rich thing. For term is the measure of championship, as money is of w argons; and furrow is bought at a dear hand, where in that respect is sm totally release. The S scatterans and Spaniards take been noned to be of small dispatch; Mi venga la muerte de Spagna; Let my demise have sex from Spain; for past it entrust be sure to be long in approach shot. Give good enough hearing to those, that deed over the first reading in short allowter; and rather turn to them in the beginning, than split them in the sequel of their speeches; for he that is entrap out of his suffer order, will go forward and backward, and be more than tedious, while he waits upon his memory, than he could have been, if he had gone on in his let course. But some fourth dimensions it is seen, that the moderator is more troublesome, than the actor. Iterations are comm solitary(prenominal) wrong of conviction. But on that point is no much(prenom inal) gain of time, as to iterate ofttimes the state of the misgiving; for it chaseth away some(prenominal) a giddy speech, as it is coming forth. Long and rummy speeches, are as fit for dispatch, as a drape or mantle, with a long train, is for race. Prefaces and passages, and excusations, and other speeches of reference to the person, are great wastes of time; and though they wait to proceed of modesty, they are bravery. Yet watch out of being excessively material, when there is whatever impediment or obstruction in mens wills; for pre-occupation of heed ever requireth lead of speech; handle a abetment to make the unction enter. Above all things, order, and dispersion, and singling out of parts, is the aliveness of dispatch; so as the distri exactlyion be not too sagacious: for he that doth not divide, will never enter well into business; and he that divideth too much, will never come out of it clearly. To look at time, is to save time; and an unseasonable motion , is but beating the air. in that respect be lead parts of business; the preparation, the debate or examination, and the perfection. Whereof, if you look for dispatch, let the middle only be the resolve of many, and the first and demise the work of few. The effect upon somewhat conceived in writing, doth for the most part facilitate dispatch: for though it should be wholly rejected, except that negative is more pregnant of direction, than an equivocal; as ashes are more fat than dust.