- Bacon's attitude towards those who do wilful injury to their friends can also be defended
- There is nothing very original to striking about the ideas expressed in this essay however it contains sound advice for the average reader this essay is more or less a lesson in morality it is a didactic essay and is an intelligent study of human nature
- as for style this essay is a mordel of compactness bacon's terse and pithy manner of writing finds a perfect illustration here many of the sentence have that aphoristic quality for which bacon is famous here are example of sentence which are packed with matter
1.for as for the frist wrong it does but offend the law but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office
2. Therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters
3.but base and crafty coward are like the arrow that flieth in the dark
4. This is certain that a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green which otherwise would heal and do well