 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
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...The Papers of Thomas lefferson, vol. 16, Julian P. Boyd (1963). Letter, March 11, 1790. Reputations 1 For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. Research 1 To write it, it took three months; to conceive it — three minutes; to collect the data... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1999 - 318 pages
...inherited the Gorhambury estate. In his last will Bacon said that he bequeathed his "name and memory ... to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." Reproduced by kind permission of the National Portrait Gallery, London. 4 Human Philosophy: Morals... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 pages
...combined almost millenarian hope with despairing cynicism - his will bequeathed his 'name and memory' to 'men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages' (Bacon (1857-74), vol. XIV, p. 539). But his extraordinary range of interests; his continual search... | |
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