 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
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...whom the wall of Shilo fell :" And in his will, after desiring to be buried by his mother, he says, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." It is hoped that documents are now in existence, by which the whole of this transaction may, without... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1852 - 324 pages
...and each, in rebuke of this ungrateful era, may proudly exclaim with Lord Verulam in his Will — " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and (he next ages." SATIRISTS OF WOMEN. CHANCES OF FEMALE HAPPINESS. "But what so pure which envious tongues... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote once more : " e swept down the stream of furilives. In an hour the forces of Surajan lowlah were disper anil to the next age." His confidence was just. From the day of his death his fame has been constantly... | |
 | 1868 - 376 pages
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 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 390 pages
...morning over the " Curiosities of Literature." Quotes from Bacon's will the following striking words : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A pretty quotation for small editions, Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ! (Martial). He... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 384 pages
...morning over the " Curiosities of Literature." Quotes from Bacon's will the following striking words : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A pretty quotation for small editions, Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ! (Martial). He... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...trade of the tailor, that he was silenced amid roars of laughter. BACON. Lord Bacon wrote in his will, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." NOVELS AND NOVELISTS. SCOTT'S HABITS OP COMPOSITION. " To JG Lockhart, Esq. " Edinburgh, 16th February,... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 342 pages
...blessed oblation of my Saviour — the one at the time of my dissolution, the other at my resurrection. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.' One of these expressions points to a passage in his life pregnant with instruction, telling of the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...the snow had succeeded excellently well." His will contains the strikingly prophetic passage — " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. His writings may be divided into — 1. Scientific; 2. Moral and Historical; 3. Epistolary and Miscellaneous.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
..."There was my mother buried, and it is the parish church of my mansion-house at Gorharnbury. . . . For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." This supreme act of filial piety towards his gifted mother is affecting. Let no " uncharitable " word... | |
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