 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
 | 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... | |
 | Champ Clark - 1920 - 530 pages
...with clear vision and deep pathos expressed the same idea in his last will and testament when 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 proud confidence was not misplaced, for his fame has augmented from the day of... | |
 | 1920 - 594 pages
...my resurrection." It is true that he speaks, in the same paragraph, of leaving his name and memory "to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages;" but not "First!" A soul in the presence of the Holy God has a strange power of setting things in their... | |
 | Frederick Franklin Shannon - 1921 - 204 pages
...my resurrection." It is true that he speaks, in the same paragraph, of leaving his name and memory " to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages"; but not " First ! " A soul in the presence of the Holy God has a strange power of setting things in their... | |
 | Basil Brown - 1921 - 398 pages
...my mansion-house of 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, to foreign nations, and the next ages." It is a consolation to know that St. Olave Church in Hart Street,... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 pages
...life was, he thought, one of the most desirable. (18) He " bequeathed " his soul and body to God. " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." (19) Rawley in the dedication of 1627 uses this expression as if it were Bacon's... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...was omitted from the final will, where he directs his burial at St. Alban's. The second becomes : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." * Ibid. p. 281. mills in their head that grind not well."1 This occurs in some notes for a memorial... | |
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