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He raised a fleet in Egypt, with which he drove the pirates out of the archipelago back into their own waters. He restored the shattered prestige of Roman authority, and he won for himself a reputation which his later cruelties might stain but could not efface.
It is better not to be called a good fellow than to win a reputation by always having a new story of the low sort ready on your tongue. There are other and better ways of winning a reputation as a good fellow. There are stories which are genuinely humorous and funny which are also clean.
The soldiers were not the only persons who were reduced to poverty and privation by the commissioners; but those who had accompanied the generals in different capacities and had formerly enjoyed a high reputation, found themselves in great distress, as they had no means of procuring the ordinary necessaries. Since I am speaking of the soldiers, I will give a few additional details.
But," he added, with a kind smile, "I see very plainly that your well-deserved reputation will be of little advantage to you if you should starve at the moment that its genial beams are, so to speak, lighting you up." "Its beams are not genial," I answered. "They have scorched and withered me."
Though her knowledge was not based strictly on the text-book, her reputation in the class was good, and, as Patty admitted with a sigh, "It's a great strain on the imagination to keep up a reputation in philosophy."
There was reason to fear that the hostile tribes would derive a great accession of strength from the impression which their success would make upon their neighbors; and the reputation of the government was deeply concerned in retrieving the fortune of its arms, and affording protection to its citizens.
But Dick simply did not care a fig for Sachar or his anger; he already knew the man pretty well by reputation, and instinctively understood that there was but one way to deal with a bully, therefore he laid a heavy hand upon the noble's shoulder, glared as savagely at him as he knew how, and whispered a whisper which reached the ears of every occupant of the table: "Have a care, my lord; have a care!
I have a month's mind to send him a challenge. He is a tall, big looking fellow to be sure. But then if I could contrive to kill him. Ah, me! but fortune does not always favour the brave. My reputation is established. I do not want a duel for that. And for any other purpose, it is all a lottery. Fire and furies, death and destruction! something must be done. Let me think About my brain."
But then he must have applied himself to it, as he did to reigning: done in the cursory style, we see what it has come to. It is certain, Friedrich's reputation suffers, at this day, from his writing. From his NOT having written nothing, he stands lower with the world. Which seems hard measure; though perhaps it is the law of the case, after all.
"But," I rejoined, "I did resign and put you in my place because I didn't want to take the fire and thought you could." "And so I can," said he. "I haven't any reputation to lose. I'm no worse off than I was before. Let 'em do their damnedest." "Your first campaign will probably be a failure," I went on, "and, the day after election, there'll be a shout for your head." He shrugged his shoulders.
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