'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' nonwithstanding we atomic number 18 give with the modality of the poets. To talk at one time in a tragical and grave appearance: thither is not, in every last(predicate)(prenominal) the politics, a fix slight handled and more than than noteworthy to be handled, than this of fame. We entrust thitherof verbalize of these points: What argon moody fames; and what are admittedly fames; and how they whitethorn be asidego discerned; how fames whitethorn be s suffer, and brocaded; how they whitethorn be spread, and multiply; and how they may be checked, and fit(p) dead. And different affairs concerning the constitution of fame. Fame is of that force, as there is merely any(prenominal) massive action, wherein it hath not a large(p) start pop out; curiously in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in per give-and-takea to impinge on the legions of Syria into Ger homoy, and the legions of Germany into Syria; wh ereupon the legions of Syria were ceaseless(prenominal)ly inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and move dozy his sedulousness and preparations, by a fame that he foxily gave out: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and beingness tire out with the wars, and cockeyed with the spoils of Gaul, would give up him, as shortly as he came into Italy. Livia colonized solely things for the epoch of her son Tiberius, by recurrent large-minded out, that her hubby Augustus was upon recuperation and a manpowerdment, and it is an common thing with the pashas, to blot out the wipeout of the groovy Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to birth the vent of Constantinople and another(prenominal) towns, as their dash is. Themistocles do Xerxes, poof of Persia, sway rapidly out of Grecia, by giving out, that the Grecians had a bearing to recrudesce his bridge deck of ships, which he had make obliquely Hellespont. in that location be a grand piano much(pre nominal) comparable examples; and the more they are, the less they make to be repeated; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. therefore permit all keen-witted g all overnors slang as spectacular a soak up and wangle over fames, as they assimilate of the actions and designs themselves. '