...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...

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...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...

...him!" TRIBUTE OF MR. CHARLES C. SMITH. As he reviewed the course of his life, Francis Bacon wrote, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to the next ages." This detachment from time and place is not less necessary...

...it be only indirectly that we owe it to him. He might fairly have written in his will like Bacon : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and to the next age." We are " the next age" ; it behoves us to be not only just but generous. To our shame...

...This may be the reason why in his will of 1625, which was really a valedictory statement, he said : " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." It will be seen that he did not trust the attitude of the English nation of that day further than men's...

...with clear vision and deep pathos expressed the same idea in his last will and testament when 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 proud confidence was not misplaced, for his fame has augmented from the day of...

...my resurrection." It is true that he speaks, in the same paragraph, of leaving his name and memory "to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages;" but not "First!" A soul in the presence of the Holy God has a strange power of setting things in their...