 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote ( nee 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... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...my mansion-house at Gorhambury, and it is the only Christian church within the walls of old Verulam. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." He then gives directions respecting his published works, and r Even in his last will he cannot conceal... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 pages
...thought profoundly, he had acted unworthily. Knowing at once his errors and his greatness, he said, " 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 well placed. Leniently as we cannot but think him to have been... | |
 | 1858 - 878 pages
...good fame, and extinguished) envy," we naturally compare it with his wellknown saving, " For my nauie and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age ;" and see how he hoped to outlive, in his writings, the bitter aninicsities and heart-burnings... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pages
...a noble perception of his own genius, Lord Bacon, in his prophetic Will, thus expresses himself: " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." Before the times of Galileo and Harvey the world believed in the stagnation of the blood, and the diurnal... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...this, and, if possible, more poignant, that produced, in the last will of Bacon, that undying wail : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." These citations are abundant to show, that neither success nor failure is the criterion... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pages
...this, and, if possible, more poignant, that produced, in the last will of Bacon, that undying wail: " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." These citations are abundant to show, that neither success nor failure is the criterion... | |
 | 1860 - 514 pages
...have written in a spirit wholly alien from that claimed by Bacon, 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.' 264 ART. II. — A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediaeval Writers... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
...we 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 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 d%ath his fame has been constantly and... | |
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