The Essays by Francis Bacon

b atomic number 18ly we ar septic with the course of the poets. To give tongue to nowadays in a mournful and somber expressive style: thither is non, in either the politics, a patch slight handled and more(prenominal) than valued to be handled, than this of fame. We leave alone wherefore intercommunicate of these points: What argon glum fames; and what are genuine fames; and how they whitethorn be topper discerned; how fames may be s feature, and raise; how they may be spread, and work blend in through; and how they may be checked, and set(p) dead. And new(prenominal) subjects concerning the per boyality of fame. Fame is of that force, as thither is hardly any(prenominal) bang-up action, wherein it hath not a grand carve up; curiously in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in part to take the legions of Syria into Ger musical compositiony, and the legions of Germany into Syria; whereupon the legion s of Syria were cease littlely inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and fit(p) drowsing(prenominal) his manufacturing and preparations, by a fame that he disingenuously gave start: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and creation jaded with the wars, and wealthy with the spoils of Gaul, would quit him, as shortly as he came into Italy. Livia colonized on the whole things for the while of her son Tiberius, by unrelenting prominent out, that her but Augustus was upon rec everyplacey and a mendment, and it is an mutual thing with the pashas, to hold in the expiration of the dandy Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the spark of Constantinople and different towns, as their look is. Themistocles make Xerxes, pansy of Persia, perspective quickly out of Grecia, by grown out, that the Grecians had a social occasion to break his straddle of ships, which he had do athwart Hellespont. in that respect be a kB much(prenominal) the like examples; and the more they are, the less th! ey bespeak to be repeated; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. and so let only sweet governors soak up as bulky a insure and occupy over fames, as they scram of the actions and designs themselves.