 | 1858 - 878 pagina’s
...good fame, and extinguished) envy," we naturally compare it with his wellknown saving, " For my nauie and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age ;" and see how he hoped to outlive, in his writings, the bitter aninicsities and heart-burnings... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 544 pagina’s
...a noble perception of his own genius, 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." Before the times of Galileo and Harvey the world believed in the stagnation of the blood, and the diurnal... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1859 - 740 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1860 - 514 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1860 - 1008 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
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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. 
