 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...the Earth. II ©f MEN feare Death, as Children feare to goe in the darke : And as that Natural Feare in Children, is increased with Tales, so is the other....Certainly, the Contemplation of Death, as the wages of sinne, and Passage to another world, is Holy, and Religious ; But the Feare of it, as a Tribute due... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...yet they are not ' covered with shame.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the otherj> Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...also Cautions for the Times, No. xiii. ESSAY H. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, BO is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...goes on to the end of the essay. Of Death, he commences, " Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." And in a second essay on the same he says, " I have BACON ON ATHEISM. 99 often thought upon death,... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...instrument of the greatest evil and greatest good that is done in the world. Sir W. Raleigh. OF DEATH. - Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes a mixture of vanity and superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1872 - 88 pages
...Men fear death in the same way. The fear of children is increased by tales. So is the fear of death. The contemplation of death, as the 'wages of sin,'...and passage to another world, is holy and religious. The fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. In religious meditations on death there is sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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 1... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...(1612; enlarged 1625). Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear of children is increased with tales, so is the other....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... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pages
...omnibus omnia large Tellus ipsa parit, naturaque dœdala rerum. VIII. — Translate into Greek Prose. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of ein and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...foretold, that when Christ cometh, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." ^ (2) //. OF DEA TH. MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ;' and...natural fear in children is increased with tales, 2 so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin 3 and passage to another... | |
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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... 
