 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
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...attained 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 itselt indicates a consciousness of the fact that his contemporary countrymen were but slightly... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...attained 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... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...attained 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... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 276 pages
...observed by the seven provinces." — "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." It is all of a piece. The literary, political, and ecclesiastical worlds have all been alike. When... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...fell:" 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...wepe vor Of ypsaTfffr o^tv^spf iv IffpatX VTTOV (upoju Of a>aXX ^>eXX. (a) 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,... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 pages
...noble perception of his own genius, Lord Bacon, in his prophetic will, thus expresses himself. ' Por 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... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1835 - 330 pages
...world than to hit country, that Lord Bacon appealed, by a frank and noble conception in his will,—1 For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.1 The calm dignity of the historian 1 >•• Thou, amidst the nation* of his times, confidently... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 516 pages
...founded on slight grounds ; and that confidence he retained to the last ; for in his will he tells us : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages." As King James was now returning from Scotland, the Attorney... | |
 | 1835 - 542 pages
...be frail, and partake of the abuse of the times." In his will are found these remarkable words ; " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." After two days' imprisonment, he was liberated; in the September... | |
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