 | James Spear Loring - History - 1852 - 720 pages
...Hancock: " Surely, man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, who have sought to express the images of their minds where...posterity is most in them that have no posterity." In Quincy's History of Harvard University appears a statement of the difficulties of the college with... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
..." Surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men ; who have sought to express the images of their minds,...posterity is most in them that have no posterity." With him the name of Bowdoin, by direct descent in the male line, passed away from the annals of New... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...have no Pofterity. They that are the firft Raifers of their Houfes, are moft indulgent towards ' O their Children ; beholding them as the Continuance, not only of their kind, but of their Work : And fo both Children, and Creatures. The difference in Affedtion, of Parents, towards their... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men : and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...children ; beholding them as the continuance, not only of theu- kind, but of their work; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents... | |
 | James Spear Loring - Boston (Mass.) - 1853 - 742 pages
...: " Surely, man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, who have sought to express the images of their minds where...the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity."_ In Quincy's History of Harvard University appears a statement of the difficulties of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men : and surely a man shall it was best first to inquire of them, whether they...king's privy chamber to her, and said unto him, " work ; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents towards their several... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1854 - 646 pages
...is gee the noblest works and foundations employed. have proceeded from childless men; JER. TAYLOR." which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their The ' disputes ' in which Gunning was bodies have failed: so the care of pos- engaged are thus set... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men : and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work ; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents towards their several... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men — and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work ; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents towards their several... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men — and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded...continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work ; and so both children and creatures. The difference in affection of parents towards their several... | |
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The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men: and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds,... 
