 For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.  Letters - Page 273by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Edith Henrietta Fowler - 1912 - 732 pages
...existence. CHAPTER XXXI IMPRESSIONS " The memory of the just is blessed." — Proverbs of Solomon. " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches." BACON. " My dear, dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afiord Is spotless reputation." SHAKESPEARE.... | |
 | Gustav Holzer - 1912 - 126 pages
...ehren würden". Die Worte seines Vermächtnisses, meint Smedley, würden sich endlich bewahrheiten: „For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and the next ages". — Diese Worte, in denen Kuno Fischer den Ausdruck grenzenloser... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote once more ; ' For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." His confidence was just. From the day of his death his fame has been constantly and... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 pages
...rejected, yet be held for a suspect. ' ' But it is difficult to believe that when he said in his last will: "For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age," he did not anticipate the final success of a revolution compared with which all other... | |
 | Amy Cruse - 1925 - 728 pages
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 | Frank H. Vizetelly - 1915 - 432 pages
...so far advanced as on the Continent, may have been due the prophetic lines found in his will : ' ' My name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." Among his contemporaries both Raleigh and Jonson appreciated his genius,106 but none expressed it so... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 578 pages
...after they had forgotten his weaknesses. " For my name and memory," so he writes in his last will, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages." 71 Writing in 1623 to his friend Tobie Matthew, Bacon says that his chief occupation was then to have... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1915 - 632 pages
...him!" TRIBUTE OF MR. CHARLES C. SMITH. As he reviewed the course of his life, Francis Bacon wrote, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages." This detachment from time and place is not less necessary... | |
 | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Baron Redesdale - 1917 - 384 pages
...it be only indirectly that we owe it to him. He might fairly have written in his will like Bacon : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and to the next age." We are " the next age" ; it behoves us to be not only just but generous. To our shame... | |
 | Parker Woodward - 1920 - 182 pages
...This may be the reason why in his will of 1625, which was really a valedictory statement, he said : " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." It will be seen that he did not trust the attitude of the English nation of that day further than men's... | |
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