 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
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pages
...this, and, if possible, more poignant, that produced, in the last will of Bacon, that undying wail : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." These citations are abundant to show, that neither success nor failure is the criterion... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 752 pages
...this, and, if possible, more poignant, that produced, in the last will of Bacon, that undying wail: " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." These citations are abundant to show, that neither success nor failure is the criterion... | |
 | 1860 - 514 pages
...have written in a spirit wholly alien from that claimed by Bacon, when he said in his last will, ' For my name and memory, I ' leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and ' to the next age.' 264 ART. II. — A Commentary on the Psalms from Primitive and Mediaeval Writers... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
...we understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote once more : 'For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and to the next age.' "His confidence was just. From the day of his death his fame has been constantly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote once more ; " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." His confidence was just. From the day of his d%ath his fame has been constantly and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote once more ; " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." His confidence was just. From the day of his death his fame has been constantly and... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1861 - 464 pages
...dignified document ; the concluding part is deeply affecting. " For my name and my memory," he says, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." In accordance with the terms of this will, his remains were laid in St. Michael's Church, near St.... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...modern science breathed his last on Easter Sunday, 1626, bequeathing in his will "his name and memory to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." Mr. Dixon's defence of Bacon's chancellorship is the worst part of the book. We are assured, for instance,... | |
 | 1863 - 588 pages
...Michael's Church ; ' there,' he tenderly adds, ' was my mother buried.' The same document subjoins : ' for my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.' The Bible Thoughts are very miscellaneous, and are taken from all parts of his works. His religions... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 206 pages
...fame, and the clear comprehension of its truths. " For my name and memory," said Lord i£ Bacon, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages." * ' for a serener clime, Of years to come, and find its recompenso In that just expectation." INDEX.... | |
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