 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 390 pages
...fame, and extinguifhettr envy. " Extinctus smabitur idem." ' The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts : But memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men : And surely we lhall observe that the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childlefs men, who have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...cares of ' life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...the eares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works are...They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children ; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their Children ; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their Children ; beholding thtm as the continuance, not only of their kind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses, are most indulgent towards their children ; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...the cares of life,J>ut they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as the continuance, not only of their kind, but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...posterity. They that are the first raisers of their nouses, are most indulgent towards their children; beholding them as the continuance, not only of their... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts ; but memory, merit, and noble works, are...They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children, beholding them as.the continuance, not only of their kind, but... | |
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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, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity. 
