 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 pages
...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...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due nnto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 pages
...and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, аз the wages of sin and passage to another world, is...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... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 pages
...Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of si a and passage to another world, is holy and religious...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1860 - 596 pages
...annihilation, as all savages do, with loathing and ineffable horror. " He fears death," to quote Bacon, " as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other." The African mind must change radically before it can "think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural tear in children is increased with tales, so a the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OF 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...on • Simulation.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and aa that natural fear in children is increased with tales,...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... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...added to the uncertain date of my years. » , • •••••••••••••••• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to... | |
 | Devout thoughts - 1867 - 568 pages
...delight with which our gracious Lord will welcome and bless His faithful servants." — IScott. " Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...the contemplation of death as the wages of sin, and the passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...Seneca's Letters to Lucilius, B. IV, Ep. 24 and 82. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the [1] dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the con- [2] templation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, 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... 
