...had been passed ; and, at the same tune, a proud confidence that his writings had secured for him a high and permanent place among the benefactors of...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...

...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...

...heaven, and slept in peace." SHAKSPBARR. CHAPTER IX.— BACON'S LEGACY. "My name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." — Bacon's Will. SUCH was the legacy bequeathed to posterity by Francis Bacon, — a legacy...

...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...

...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." Before the times of Galileo and Harvey, the world believed in the diurnal immovability...

...•'• . . . aij FRANCIS BACON CONFESSES, IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH, TO HAVING WRITTEN RHYMED BOOKS For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next ages. The Last Will of FRANCIS BACON. FRANCIS BACON lived from 1561 to 1626. Not even his...

...dishonour. a hope which rings like a pathetic echo of the words in Bacon's draft Will and Testament, " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations and the next ages ; and to mine own countrymen after some time be past. " i (in. i.) 1633. CHAPTER XV CONCLUSION...

...passage in his Great Master's will : " As for my name and memory," writes Lord Bacon, in his testament, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." Brougham had not to wait for posterity to rehabilitate him. Foreign nations had never ceased...

...NATIONS. SIR FRANCIS BACON. WITH serene consciousness of future fame, Bacon nobly said in his will : " For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations and the next ages." No better summary of his literary merits can be made than that...

...ike Psalms. He seemed to be fully conscious of the greatness of his works, for he says in his will, "For my name and memory I leave it to men's charitable speeches, to foreign nations, and to my own country after some time nas passed away " He feared that justice...