...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,...

...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...

...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....

...directions relating to his MSS. and unfinished writings, and contains the following sentence : — " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages ; and to mine own countrymen after some time be past" This was indeed prophetic, for it is foreign...

...ehren würden". Die Worte seines Vermächtnisses, meint Smedley, würden sich endlich bewahrheiten: „For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and the next ages". — Diese Worte, in denen Kuno Fischer den Ausdruck grenzenloser...

...existence. CHAPTER XXXI IMPRESSIONS " The memory of the just is blessed." — Proverbs of Solomon. " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches." BACON. " My dear, dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afiord Is spotless reputation." SHAKESPEARE....

...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...

...rejected, yet be held for a suspect. ' ' But it is difficult to believe that 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," he did not anticipate the final success of a revolution compared with which all other...

...so far advanced as on the Continent, may have been due the prophetic lines found in his will : ' ' My name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." Among his contemporaries both Raleigh and Jonson appreciated his genius,106 but none expressed it so...

...after they had forgotten his weaknesses. " For my name and memory," so he writes in his last will, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages." 71 Writing in 1623 to his friend Tobie Matthew, Bacon says that his chief occupation was then to have...