Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age. "
Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age - Page 149
edited by - 1855
Full view - About this book

Miscellanies

Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 pages
...of all that are gone; and to have opened the eyes of all that are to come." Bacon said of himself, "For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age." Thus, with a proud consciousness of his genius, he, who called himself "the servant...
Full view - About this book

Chambers's information for the people, ed. by W. and R. Chambers, Volume 2

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1842 - 744 pages
...nouns, and so must be plural. 1. Thou ffhalt also moke a taver of brass, and his foot also of bran. 2. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.— BACON. 3. Rebckah took goodly rainunt that was in the house, and put Hum on Jacob....
Full view - About this book

Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 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...
Full view - About this book

The New Englander, Volumes 19-20

Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...remembered, put on record the following solemn appeal to the coming generations : " For my memory I bequeath it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages." Whether we are to consider the bold attempt to clear the fair fame of Lord Bacon, which Mr. William...
Full view - About this book

New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 10

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1852 - 688 pages
...and repeating them. And thus lingering, this becomes a requiem, singing itself in our thoughts, — "to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages." ART. II.— ETHICS OF EDITORSHIP. Reply to the strictures of Lord Mahon and others, on the mode of...
Full view - About this book

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

American literature - 1855 - 602 pages
...snow had succeeded excellently well." His will contains the strikingly prophetic passage — " For ray name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches,...Magna" and " Novum Organum" (published 1620) ; and " De Augmentis Scientiarum" (published 1623). Hallam remarks, " I find upon comparison that more than two-thirds...
Full view - About this book

Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Indians - 1844 - 680 pages
...my mansion-house of Gorhambury, and it is the only Christian church within the walls of old Verulam. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." He was of course buried where he desired. The accomplishments...
Full view - About this book

Famous Men of Modern Times, Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Biography - 1844 - 336 pages
...my mansion-house of Gorhambury, and it is the only Christian church within the walls of old Verulam. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." He was of course buried where he desired. The accomplishments...
Full view - About this book

The Guide to Knowledge, Or Repertory of Facts: Forming a Complete Library of ...

Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...my mansion-house of Gorhambury, and it is the only Christian church within the walls of Old Verulam. For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and the next ages." He was of course buried where he desired ; his faithful friend...
Full view - About this book

Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...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....
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF