 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...best judge of Divinity and Poesy met;" and he dies on the 9th of April, 1626, saying in his will : " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." There was less occasion, perhaps, than has been generally supposed, that he should leave it by his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...benefactors of mankind . So at least we understand those striking words which have been often quoted : — ' 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 (which occurred at Highgate, 9th... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...1561-1626. " O tenebris tantis tarn clamm extollere lumen Qui primus potuiste, illustrans commoda vita;." " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." — From Lord Bacon's Will. fc JSacon. Afar, upon a sea all unexplored, A gallant... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 pages
...corruption as a judge ; and died in the spring of 1626. ' For my name and memory,' said the dying man, ' I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.' Posterity has been generous ; the fame of Bacon is immense. Admirers have not always been unanimous... | |
 | Minnesota State Medical Association - 1870 - 598 pages
...discoverers of new arts and sciences have hardly ever lived to see them accepted by the world. Lord Bacon, in his prophetic will, thus expresses himself,...men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages.' "Before the times of Galileo and Harvey, the world believed in the stagnation of... | |
 | 1870 - 214 pages
...inexhaustible fountain of beauty and delight. THE BYEON SCANDAL. LOED BACON, in his will, thus expressed himself " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to the next age." So conscious was he of his shortcomings from his own ideal ; few men had a clearer consciousness... | |
 | 1874 - 808 pages
...us remember Bacon's ancestry, the practise of his time, and the strange proud words in his Will ; " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." I have traced the ancestry of these early English worthies... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 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... | |
 | 1874 - 780 pages
...us remember Bacon's ancestry, the practise of his time, and the strange proud words in his Will ; " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." I have traced the ancestry of these early English worthies... | |
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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. 
