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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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American Bar Association Visit to England, Scotland and Ireland, 1924 ...

American Bar Association. Committee on Publications - 1926 - 562 pages
...this respect [ 319 ] and dealing with this matter, of his Will. He said, "For my name and memory, 1 leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. ' ' Mr. Junior, no more valiant and confident appeal was ever wrung from a mind of genius. And the...
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A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the ..., Volume 2

Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 pages
...preserve the meat ; he caught cold and died on April 9, 1626, after having recommended his memory " to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." He left a considerable work, valuable and deceptive, streaked with bright light and dark shadows, comprising...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3

1859 - 796 pages
...Vols. I. — VI. London : Longman & Co. 1858. " FOR my name nnd memory," said Bacon in bis will, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." Scarcely was he dead when the first portion of this legacy received some part of...
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Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 8

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1818 - 624 pages
...candour, rather than to the greater intelligence of after times. " My name and memory," says he, " I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign " nations, and the next ages J." But whatever opinion may be entertained upon this point, it will, I hope, appear evident 3 F 2...
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The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works ...

James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...Nor to believe and take for granted; Nor to find talk and discourse But to weigh and consider. Ibid. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. Ibid. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,...
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Rice Institute Pamphlet, Volumes 12-13

1925 - 790 pages
...In his will the numerous bequests far exceeded his assets, but Bacon wisely left his name and memory "to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages". pretenses of men of the seventeenth century. To modern ears, Bacon the courtier speaks so loudly that...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist You pronounce sentence upon me with greater...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...he had foresight and vision. He wrote in his last will when he bequeathed his fame to the next age: 'For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. '10 Throughout his life he manifestly respected the power of examples not less than he worked for the...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...he had foresight and vision. He wrote in his last will when he bequeathed his fame to the next age: 'For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.'10 Throughout his life he manifestly respected the power of examples not less than he worked...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...New 1929) See .il-j F üzgí-r.íl.J on F. SCOTT F I1?GFRALD. HERESY 1 For my name and memory I leave $ C x FRANCIS BACON (1 561-1626). English philosopher, essayist. statesman. Lasl will, 19Dec. 1625 (published...
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