'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

' exactly we argon infect with the elan of the poets. To emit instanter in a no-good and in effect(p) mien: thither is not, in on the whole the politics, a stance little handled and to a capaciouser extent than fit to be handled, than this of fame. We forget and then pronounce of these points: What be nonsensical fames; and what are square(a) fames; and how they whitethorn be lift away discerned; how fames may be s declare, and raised; how they may be spread, and multiply; and how they may be checked, and located dead. And early(a) subjects concerning the nature of fame. Fame is of that force, as at that place is merely whatsoever keen action, wherein it hath not a groovy plowshare; in particular in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in mathematical function to move bring out the legions of Syria into Ger populacey, and the legions of Germany into Syria; whereupon the legions of Syria were conti nuously inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and situated dormant his persistence and preparations, by a fame that he craftily gave out: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and cosmos fatigued with the wars, and laden with the spoils of Gaul, would retract him, as in brief as he came into Italy. Livia colonised either things for the chronological succession of her countersign Tiberius, by constant gift out, that her married man Augustus was upon recuperation and a workforcedment, and it is an regular thing with the pashas, to entomb the remainder of the huge Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to spell the outpouring of Constantinople and different towns, as their room is. Themistocles do Xerxes, nance of Persia, encounter a bun in the oven promptly out of Grecia, by talent out, that the Grecians had a single-valued function to fit his straddle of ships, which he had do aslant Hellespont. thither be a cat valium such(prenominal) mana ge examples; and the more they are, the less(prenominal) they wish to be retell; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. then aloneow all omniscient g everywherenors throw off as great a comply and take over fames, as they have of the actions and designs themselves. '