Francis Bacon Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Lord Chancellor
Life: January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
Birthday: January 22
Death: April 9
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
source: Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu (1825). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:”, p.107
topic: Book, Names, Stories, Deluge, Remnants
