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" For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age. "
Letters - Page 273
by Francis Bacon - 1850
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 430 pages
...the earl of Arundel at Highgate. "For my name and memory," he beautifully writes in his last will, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next agesb." a Discoveries. b See for this part of the life of Bacon the letters and memorials chronologically...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 538 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...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and ..., Volume 3

Horace Smith - 1825 - 368 pages
...resignation, 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 the next ages. " THE OLD WHITE HAT—AND THE OLD GREY MARE. I COULD write a volume upon this old white hat, and upon...
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Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive ...

Horace Smith - 1825 - 436 pages
...resignation, 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 the next ages." THE OLD WHITE HAT, AND THE OLD GREY MARE. I COULD write a volume upon this old white hat, and upon...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...:" And in his will, after desiring to be buried by his mother, he says, " For my name and memory 1 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...,>s vor Of yptaTtar oipifnv$£p£ iv IdpatX UTTOV wyofi 0t tuaXX ^/tXX. (ft) In his will, he says, " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." These words, not to be read till he was at rest from his labours,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1829 - 524 pages
...submitting to the public a correct edition of the works of Lord Bacon, and to obey his last admonition, " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." BM And for them they are these following. The first is, " the History of Henry the Seventh, King of...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 11

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1829 - 512 pages
...submitting to the public a correct edition of the works of Lord Bacon, and to obey his last admonition, " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." BM And for them they are these following. The first is, " the History of Henry the Seventh, King of...
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Life of Galileo Galilei: With Illustrations of the Advancement of ...

John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1832 - 314 pages
...independently of his assistance. The proud appeal to posterity which he uttered in his will, — " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages," — of itself indicates a consciousness of the fact that his contemporary countrymen were but slightly...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...(Emperor), 1790. Dr. John Moore, 1802. d. Richmond. Richard Gough,! 809. WWrntet/. Dr. Arthur Young, 1820. For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. — -Lord Bacon's Will. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool. — Malvolio....
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