| Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 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...beholding them as the continuance not only of their 1 Veracitatis famam. kind but of their work ; 1 and so both children and creatures. The difference... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...common [3] 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...They that are the first raisers of their houses are [4] most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 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 - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...Noblest workes, and Foundations, have proceeded from Childlesse Men; which have sought to expresse the Images of their Minds ; where those of their Bodies...Beholding them, as the Continuance, not only of their kinde, but of their VVorke ; And so both Children, and Creatures. The difference in Affection, of Parents,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 678 pages
...Pofterity, is moft in them, that haue no Pofterity. They that are the irft Raifers of their Houfes,3 we moft Indulgent towards their Children ; Beholding them, as the Continuance, not only of heir kinde, but of their fVorke ;4 And fo both Chil. * First Raisers . . . Houses. Qui Honores in Familiam... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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.2 The difference in affection of parents towards their several... | |
| Æneas James G. Mackay - 1873 - 360 pages
...good witness on such a point, " produced within the space of two centuries as many men of talent, 1 " Which have sought to express the images of their minds...bodies have failed; so the care of posterity is most in those that have no posterity."—Essay, Of Parents and Children. Pitcairn, in the poem already quoted,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 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...images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed—so the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...men—and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations 7 have proceeded from childless men, 8 which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed—so the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...merit, and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations 2 have proceeded from childless men, which have sought...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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