 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 lapas
...the sovereign good of human nature.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification, that a man should think... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 lapas
...and home. WORDSWORTH. XL. THE HOUR OF DEATH. " MEN fear death as children fear to go into the durk ; and as that natural fear in children is increased...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. * * * He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 lapas
...also Cautionsfor the Times, No. xiii. ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification, that a man should think... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1857 - 672 lapas
...and put an end to the harrowing controversy. Men fear death, says Bacon, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; hut the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." " The ancients," says Julius Hare, "... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 lapas
...It appears to me that Lord Bacon may have ufed Florio's verfion. 7 Luke xviii. 8. ii. Of Death. JEN fear Death as Children fear to go in the Dark : and as that Natural Fear in Children is encreafed with Tales, fo is the other. Certainly, the Contemplation of Death, as the Wages of Sin and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 lapas
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OP DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and...meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification, that a man should think... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 lapas
...Simulation.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. "1 TEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and _LT-1- as that natural fear in children is increased with...of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religions ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 lapas
...DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children in increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly,...religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto ui * See note A, at the end of the Esiaj i. tare, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 lapas
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 lapas
...bein°j foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find f aim v/pon the earth.6 , * II. OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark: and...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplatiori•jjfjfcath, as the wages of sin and passage to another worl^C is holy and religious;... | |
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MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the... 
