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FAL'STERBO, a fea-port town of Sweden, in the 
province of Schonen, chiefly known for a light-houfe and 
its herring fitliery : twenty-two miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Lund. Lat. 55. 22. N. Ion. 12.48. E. Greenwich. 
To FAL'TER, v. n. [ faltar, to be wanting, Spanifh ; 
vaultter, a ftammerer, Iflandic, which is probably a word 
from the fame radical. ] To hefitate in the utterance of 
words: 
The pale afliftants on each other ftar’d, 
With gaping mouths for ilTuing words prepar’d ; 
The flill-born founds upon the palate hung, 
And dy’d imperfeft on the falt’ring tongue. Dryden. 
To fail in any aft of the body.—He found his legs falter. 
Wife man . 
This earth fhall have a feeling; and thefe hones 
Prove armed foldiers, ere her native king 
Shall falter under foul rebellious arms. Skakefpcare. 
To fail in any aft of the under handing.—How far idiots 
are concerned in the watvLpr weaknefs of any or all facul¬ 
ties, an exaft obfervation of their feveral ways of faltering 
would difcover. Locke. 
To FAL'TER, v. a. To lift; to clean Lz,.ThNioordfccms 
to be merely provincial. —Barley for malt mud be bold, dry, 
fweet, and clean faltered from foulnefs, feeds, and oats. 
Mortimer. 
FAL'TERINGLY, adv. With hefitation ; with diffi¬ 
culty ; with feeblenefs. 
FALU'GA, a fmall ifland in the Mediterranean, near 
the weh coah of Sardinia: twelve miles fouth of Cape 
Argentera. 
FALU'GA, a town of Afistic Turkey, in the Arabian 
Irak, on the weh bank of the Euphrates, where an arm 
of that river ilfues to join the Tigris : twenty-five miles 
fouth eaft of Bagdad. 
FA'LUN, a river of Swiflerland, which runs into the 
lake of Neufchatel, near Yverdun. 
FA'LUN. See Fahlun. 
FALX,/. [Latin.] In anatomy, a part of the dura 
mater, defeending between the two hemifpheres of the 
brain, and feparating the fore-part from the hinder. It 
is called falx , i. e. fickle, becaufe of its curvature, occa- 
iioned by the convexity of the brain. It divides the brain 
as low as the corpus cullofum. 
FAM-CHAM, a town of China, of tlie third rank, in 
the province of Pe-tche-li : twenty-five miles foiith-weft 
of Peking. 
FAM-CHAN-POU HO'TUN, a town of Alia, in the 
kingdom of Corea: 612 miles eah-north-eah of Peking. 
FA'MA, or Fame, in mythology, was worfhipped by 
the ancients as a powerful goudefs, and generally repre¬ 
sented blowing a trumpet. Stutibs. 
FA'MACIDE,/ \fama, fame, and cado, Lat. to kill.] 
A flanderer; Scott. Not much ufed. 
FAMA'RS, a town of France, in the department of 
the North; near which the French, in the beginning of 
1793, had a fortified camp for the defence of Valenciennes, 
which was attacked by the allies on the 23d of April, 
under the command of the duke of York, the prince of 
Coburg, and general Clairfait. The French were driven 
from the ground, which enabled the allies to lay fiege to 
Valenciennes. No official account was publifhed of the 
lols of the troops; but on both fides it muft have been 
great: three miles fouth of Valenciennes. 
FAMAGOS'TA, a fea-port of the ifland of Cyprus, 
fituated on the call coaft of the illand ; with a good har¬ 
bour, but much choaked up, the entrance into which is 
defended by two forts, oppofite each other. It is the fee 
of a Greek bitliop, fuffragan of Nicolia. It was formerly 
well fortified by the Venetians, but was taken by the 
Turks in 1571, after a liege of ten months: fince which 
the fortifications have been neglefted: forty miles ealt of 
Nicofia. -Lat. 35. 10.N. Ion. 35. 55. E. Greenwich. 
To FAM'BLE, v.-a. [famlcr , Danilh. ] To hefitate in 
the fpeech. Skinner, 
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FAME,/, \_fama, Lat. tpa/xa, Doric.] Celebrity; re¬ 
nown.—The houfe to be builded for the Lord muft be 
exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all 
countries. Citron. —Report; rumour.—We have heard the 
fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt. Jof. ix. 9. 
The love of fame is one of the mod general and ftimu- 
latiijg defires in the human heart. It is alfo among the 
number of thofe principles, concerning the nature of 
which very different opinions have been formed, in fpe- 
culation ; and in the direction of which very dangerous 
extremes have been purfued, in aftion. By fome, it has 
been reprefented as a diftemper of the foul ; a vicious 
weaknefs, which debafed the dignity, and ftained the 
virtue, of a rational and immortal nature. By others, 
it has been extolled as a mod worthy and laudable incite¬ 
ment to exertion ; as the nobleft aim, and beft reward, of 
benevolent and heroic deeds. By fome, it has been fo 
little regarded as a motive to aftion, that every defire of 
excellence, every principle of inauffry, every emotion of 
honour, has been driven from their minds ; and their 
lives, dragged out in ffoical apathy, or monattic indolence, 
have neither been honourable to themfelves nor ufeful to 
men. By others, it has been fo extravagantly prized, 
that it hasengrotted all their thoughts, and prompted all 
their movements : by a blind and frantic paffion for its 
attainment, they have been hurried into all the ridiculous 
pretenfions of vanity, affieftation, and pride; into all the 
treacherous machinations of hypocrily, detraction, and 
envy; into all the horrid enormities of ambition, devaf- 
tation, and murder! 
The nature and origin of this powerful principle might 
form a very intereffing fubjeft of fpeculation for the me- 
taphyfician. Its general utility, and extenlive influence 
on fociety, might juftly claim the attention of the politi¬ 
cian : while its due regulation and fubferviency to virtue 
might profitably employ the pen of the moralift. 
It cannot admit of a doubt, that this love of praife has 
been implanted in the mind of man for the bell and 
wife ft purpofes ; and it is impoffible to deny, that it has 
aftualiy prompted to the execution of plans the rnoft im¬ 
portant to communities. It has, no doubt, been alfo 
hurtful. It has often dragged into its fervices, with a 
felfifh grafp, every faculty of the mind; checked the 
growth of more generous feelings ; and raifed the bubble 
of human vanity, in oppofition to every duty human and 
divine. It has often “let loofe the dogs of war,” fpread 
ruin and defolation far and wide, transformed this abode 
of human beings into a pandremonium, and converted the 
face of things into a pifture of he.ll. 
In an inquiry into the proper objefts of the love of 
fame, the diftinftion which has been made by the ancient 
ftoics, demands our notice. By thefe philofophers, two 
kinds of reputation are mentioned; the applaufe of the 
many, which they reckoned of no eftimation; and the 
approbation of good and wife men, for the attainment of 
which they thought every exertion fttould be made. The 
firft, by later writers, is termed gloria ; the fecond, claritas. 
Gloria (fays Seneca) multorum jndiciis conjlat-, claritas, ko- 
nonan. And he adds, Sed claritas potejl unites boni viri ju. 
dicio cjfe contcnta. Let us confider each of thefe. We 
fhall begin with the laft—the approbation of good and 
wife men. It muft be allowed, with the ftoic moralifts, 
that this is an objeft which it is reafonable and right that 
every man fttould defiie. It can be gamed only by vir¬ 
tuous and prudent condnft ; and if the defire of gaining 
it ftimulate to fuch a deportment, it muft be regarded as 
the handmaid of virtue.* But there is a diftinftion, which 
it is of the rnoft effential importance to obferve, in efti- 
mating the moral rectitude of human condnft, in the 
purfnit of fame even of this delcription. We muft dif- 
tinguifti between “ the defire of the approbation of good 
men,” and the performing even of virtuous actions irotn 
no other principle than the love of that approbation. 
The former is right; the latter, is wrong. 'I he former 
indicates a generous mind ; the latter a fd.fiill heart. 1 lie 
