| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 páginas
...Alderman of London. The most memorable bequest in this last will of Bacon's is the following : — " For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A modest yet withal lofty appeal ; and one which has not been made in vain. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1846 - 530 páginas
...With 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.1 Before the times of Galileo and Harvey, the world believed in tha stagnation of the blood, and... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 822 páginas
...has not properly weighed those memorable, and, as they have become, pathetic words in Bacon's last will, " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable constructions." But we must, though cursorily, notice his more genial lives of Wolsey and More, before... | |
| Alexander Wilson M'Clure - 1847 - 592 páginas
...truth of his own convictions, uttered in that memorable sentence affixed to his last testament : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." Who would compare the Puritan preacher at Leyden with the friend of monarchs, and... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 276 páginas
...most memorable bequest in this last will of Bacon's is the following : — " For my name and memory 1 leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." A modest yet withal lofty appeal ; and one which has not been made in vain. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 546 páginas
...his will, he said, with a tone which rises into sublimity, — " For my name and memory, I leave them to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages." The love and reverence, which he could not secure in his elevation, came to him unsolicited in his... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1847 - 550 páginas
...his will, he said, with a tone which rises into sublimity, — " For my name and memory, I leave them to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages." The love and reverence, which he could not secure in his elevation, came to him unsolicited in his... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 páginas
...whom the wall of Shilo fell :'* And in his will, after desiring to be buried by his motber, he says, " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable...speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." It is hoped that documents are now in existence, by which the whole of this transaction may, without... | |
| 1888 - 668 páginas
...University of Glasgow. Part I. Bacon' i Life. ( Blackwood fc Sons. ) THOUGH BJCOD left hie name and memory " to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages,' he could scarcely have fore?een the endless controversy -which was to arise over the bequest. No Chancery... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 870 páginas
...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,... | |
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