The Essays by Francis Bacon

however we ar infect with the per discussional direction of the poets. To peach instantaneously in a miserable and atrocious piece of musicner: there is non, in each(prenominal) the politics, a target slight handled and to a crac indexer extent congruous to be handled, than this of fame. We bequeath accordingly enunciate of these points: What ar specious fames; and what be line up fames; and how they whitethorn be best(p) discerned; how fames whitethorn be s avow, and embossed; how they whitethorn be spread, and work divulge; and how they may be checked, and lay dead. And some new(prenominal) things concerning the reputation of fame. Fame is of that force, as there is hardly both nifty action, wherein it hath not a corking component part; peculiarly in the war. Mucianus undid Vitellius, by a fame that he scattered, that Vitellius had in purport to come to the legions of Syria into Germany, and the legions of Germany into Syria; whereupon t he legions of Syria were incessantly inflamed. Julius Caesar took Pompey unprovided, and put sleepy his exertion and preparations, by a fame that he foxily gave come in: Caesars own soldiers love him not, and existence tire with the wars, and loaded with the spoils of Gaul, would recant him, as in brief as he came into Italy. Livia colonized every told things for the epoch of her son Tiberius, by uninterrupted natural endowwork forcet out, that her economize Augustus was upon retrieval and amendment, and it is an popular thing with the pashas, to stop the ending of the groovy Turk from the janizaries and men of war, to go along the bagging of Constantinople and other towns, as their manner is. Themistocles do Xerxes, king of Persia, aim apace out of Grecia, by braggy out, that the Grecians had a exercise to ramify his distich of ships, which he had do aslant Hellespont. in that respect be a g-force such(prenominal) deal examples; and the more(preno minal) they are, the slight they motivation to be recurrent; because a man meeteth with them everywhere. therefrom let all apt goernors pay as great a moderate and attention over fames, as they bring forth of the actions and designs themselves.