 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 384 pages
...morning over the " Curiosities of Literature." Quotes from Bacon's will the following striking words : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A pretty quotation for small editions, Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ! (Martial). He... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1853 - 390 pages
...morning over the " Curiosities of Literature." Quotes from Bacon's will the following striking words : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A pretty quotation for small editions, Quam brevis immensum cepit membrana Maronem ! (Martial). He... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1854 - 342 pages
...blessed oblation of my Saviour — the one at the time of my dissolution, the other at my resurrection. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages.' One of these expressions points to a passage in his life pregnant with instruction, telling of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 pages
...old Verulam. I would have the charge of my funeral not to exceed three hundred pounds at the most. For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. But, as to that durable part of my memory, which consisteth in my works and writings, I desire my executors,... | |
 | William Keddie - 1854 - 400 pages
...trade of the tailor, that he was silenced amid roars of laughter. BACON. Lord Bacon wrote in his will, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." NOVELS AND NOVELISTS. SCOTT'S HABITS OP COMPOSITION. " To JG Lockhart, Esq. " Edinburgh, 16th February,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...the snow had succeeded excellently well." His will contains the strikingly prophetic passage — " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. His writings may be divided into — 1. Scientific; 2. Moral and Historical; 3. Epistolary and Miscellaneous.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
..."There was my mother buried, and it is the parish church of my mansion-house at Gorharnbury. . . . For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...his genius ! Gassendi presents an analysis of his labors, and pays a tribute of admiration to their author; Descartes has mentioned him with encomium... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...understand those striking words which have been often quoted, but which we must quote ( nee 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... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...my mansion-house at 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, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." He then gives directions respecting his published works, and r Even in his last will he cannot conceal... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 pages
...thought profoundly, he had acted unworthily. Knowing at once his errors and his greatness, 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 confidence was well placed. Leniently as we cannot but think him to have been... | |
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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. 
