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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,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 21
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 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...in them that have no posterity. They that are the tirst raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the continuance,...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1886 - 304 pages
...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,...indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the 15 continuance, not only of their kind, but of their work ; and so both children and creatures. The...
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The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ...

Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 pages
...childless men ; which !I:HI^^Qj^fc i < > express the images of their minds, where those of their bmke have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them...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...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...is common to beasts; but memory, merit, aml noble works, are proper to men : and surely a man shall people : io the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. They that are the first raisers...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 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...
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Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam): A Critical Review of His Life and Character ...

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 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...
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Works, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 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...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...
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Life of Campestris Ulm: The Oldest Inhabitant of Boston Common

Joseph Henry Curtis - Boston Common (Boston, Mass.) - 1910 - 166 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...
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