 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...LORD BACON: Essay VIII., Of Married and Single Life. A man shall see the noblest works and foundation; have proceeded from childless men ; which have sought...posterity is most in them that have no posterity. LORD BACON. They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful, and... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - Statesmen - 1876 - 214 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 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 from childless men, which 10 have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the no-- blest works and foundations have proceeded from childless...the 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.) - 1877 - 782 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...have failed : so the care of posterity is most in thcia that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...the noblest works and foundations 4 have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express 5 the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed; so the care of posterity 6 is most in them that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers 7 of their houses are most... | |
 | Alexander Kinloch Forbes - Gujarat (India) - 1878 - 844 pages
...lair of the victorious lion. We cannot suppose the 1 See Lord Bacon's remark, — "Surely a man shall see the noblest works, and " foundations have proceeded, from childless men, which have sought to express " images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed." dominions which were held by Mool... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...the noblest works and foundations4 have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express6 the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed; so the care of posterity6 is most in them that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers7 of their houses... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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 from childless men, which 10 have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...tenderness is not so oft called upon. LORD BACON : Essay VIII., Of Married and Single Life. A m.in shall eof; in all carefulness employ it : with high recompense,...thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us. D LORD BACON. They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful, and... | |
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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,... 
