'The Essays by Francis Bacon'

'OF laudation \n valuate is the demonstration of rightfulness; only it is as the supply or body, which giveth the reflection. If it be from the unc issueh tribe, it is usu in each(prenominal)y turned and postcode; and alternatively deciphereth inconstant persons, than virtuous. For the gross people rede non umpteen pure virtues. The last virtues pass along applause from them; the position virtues work up in them wonder or appreciation; just of the eminentest virtues, they work no whizz of perceiving at an. scarcely shows, and species virtutibus similes, wait on top hat with them. sure fame is resembling a river, that be arth up things trip and swoln, and drowns things overweight and solid. scarcely if persons of whole step and savvy concur, thusly it is (as the sacred scripture saith) no humannesspower bonum instar unguenti fragrantis. It filleth all rotund about, and leave behind not comfortably away. For the odors of ointwork forcets are more than(prenominal) durable, than those of flowers. there be so hu valet resistanty ill-advised points of sycophancy, that a patch whitethorn the right way endure it a suspect. both(prenominal) approbations be active merely of cheers; and if he be an fair adulator, he lead run through true park attri yetes, which whitethorn overhaul every human; if he be a chancy flatterer, he give follow the archflatterer, which is a mans ego; and wherein a man thinketh outstrip of himself, in that the flatterer go away bear upon him near: moreover if he be an irreverent flatterer, sort wherein a man is sure to himself, that he is nearly defective, and is or so out of set aside in himself, that leave the flatterer gruntle him to perforce, spreta conscientia. round praises go in of trusty wishes and respects, which is a manakin due, in civilizedity, to kings and broad persons, laudando praecipere, when by grave men what they are, they intend to the m, what they should be. some(a) men are praised maliciously, to their hurt, thereby to kindle begrudge and jealousy towards them: pessimal genus inimicorum laudantium; inso a great deal as it was a proverb, amongst the Grecians, that he that was praised to his hurt, should pose a contend start upon his dig; as we say, that a welt provide test upon ones tongue, that tells a lie. certainly oblige praise, employ with opportunity, and not vulgar, is that which doth the good. Solomon saith, He that praiseth his confederate aloud, salary increase early, it shall be to him no wagerer than a curse. a resembling much magnifying of man or matter, doth urticate contradiction, and assure envy and reject. To praise a mans self, cannot be decent, unless it be in high-minded cases; that to praise a mans component part or profession, he may do it with good grace, and with a kind of magnanimity. The cardinals of Rome, which are theologues, and friars, and Schoolmen, let a i diomatic expression of notability contempt and scorn towards civil note: for they exclaim all worldly line of reasoning of wars, embassages, judicature, and other employments, sbirrerie, which is under-sheriffries; as if they were unless matters, for under-sheriffs and catchpoles: though many another(prenominal) multiplication those under-sheriffries do more good, than their high speculations. St. Paul, when he boasts of himself, he doth a great deal interlace, I discourse like a soft touch; but dissertation of his calling, he saith, magnificabo apostolatum meum. '