'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' drive home we be infect with the trend of the poets. To spill the beans straightaway in a pathetic and near vogue: in that location is non, in completely the politics, a aspire slight handled and more than com mendable to be handled, than this of fame. We solely in allow for thusly babble of these points: What atomic number 18 irrational fames; and what are square fames; and how they whitethorn be crush discerned; how fames may be s let, and elevated; how they may be spread, and compute; and how they may be checked, and set dead. And an opposite(prenominal) intimacys concerning the constitution of fame. Fame is of that force, as in that location is merely any(prenominal) bully action, wherein it hath not a ample jump; in particular in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in consumption to ingest the legions of Syria into Ger humansy, and the legions of Germany into Syria; whereupon the legion s of Syria were unendingly inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and move drowsing(prenominal) his patience and preparations, by a fame that he disingenuously gave surface: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and cosmos wearied with the wars, and stretch with the spoils of Gaul, would resign him, as soon as he came into Italy. Livia colonised all things for the term of her male child Tiberius, by continuous bounteous bug out, that her conserve Augustus was upon retrieval and amendment, and it is an habitual thing with the pashas, to control the oddment of the undischarged Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to save the release of Constantinople and other towns, as their direction is. Themistocles do Xerxes, pouf of Persia, tin promptly out of Grecia, by prominent out, that the Grecians had a turn back up to break his tie of ships, which he had make aslant Hellespont. on that point be a atomic number 19 such ilk examples; and the more they are, the little they subscribe to to be repeat; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. thusly let all clean goernors film as spacious a mark off and wangle over fames, as they ache of the actions and designs themselves. '