...Michael's Church ; ' there,' he tenderly adds, ' was my mother buried.' The same document subjoins : ' for my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.' The Bible Thoughts are very miscellaneous, and are taken from all parts of his works....

...fame, and the clear comprehension of its truths. " For my name and memory," said Lord i£ Bacon, " I leave it to men's charitable speeches and to foreign nations, and the next ages." * ' for a serener clime, Of years to come, and find its recompenso In that just expectation."...

...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 stagnation of the...

...had been passed, and, at the same time, a proud confidence that his writings had secured for him a high and permanent place among the benefactors of...confidence was just. From the day of his death his fame hos been constantly and steadily progressive; and we have no doubt that his name will be named with...

...ugly and hackneyed line which we shall not quote, and who bequeathed in his will "his name and memory" to "men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." His civil works and his life have been mentioned in these papers before. He was of first-rate...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...pretended disclosures of the future. Lord Bacon, in his will, said, " For my name and memory, I leave them to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next ages." The Bible, in all the reproaches cast upon it, has thus left its vindication to the " next ages"...