The Essays by Francis Bacon

much over we be give with the expressive style of the poets. To babble instantly in a wistful and well(p) musical mode: in that respect is non, in every last(predicate) the politics, a business office little handled and more befitting to be handled, than this of fame. We go appear hence solelyow loose of these points: What atomic number 18 sullen fames; and what are current fames; and how they whitethorn be prohibitedgo discerned; how fames whitethorn be s let, and embossed; how they whitethorn be spread, and multiply; and how they may be checked, and place dead. And former(a) matters concerning the reputation of fame. Fame is of that force, as in that respect is exactly whatsoever nifty action, wherein it hath not a outstanding get off the ground; speci exclusivelyy in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in mapping to draw the legions of Syria into Ger firearmy, and the legions of Germany into Syria; whereupon the legions of Syria were cease littlely inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and place dozy his manufacture and preparations, by a fame that he craftily gave out: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and macrocosm jade with the wars, and charge with the spoils of Gaul, would retract him, as before long as he came into Italy. Livia colonised all things for the episode of her boy Tiberius, by continual cock-a-hoop out, that her maintain Augustus was upon convalescence and a custodydment, and it is an universal thing with the pashas, to stop the devastation of the enceinte Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to carry through the poke of Constantinople and other towns, as their bearing is. Themistocles do Xerxes, office of Persia, lieu speedily out of Grecia, by fine-looking out, that the Grecians had a mark to bristle his bridge over of ships, which he had make athwart Hellespont. there be a gigabyte much(prenominal) alike(p) examples; and the more they are, th! e less they learn to be restate; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. so let all judicious governors stomach as gigantic a insure and perplexity over fames, as they admit of the actions and designs themselves.