 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...perfidious;' and yet they are not ' covered with shame.' OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with talcs, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...being foretold that, when "Christ cometh," He shall not "find faith upon the Earth." OF DEATH.2 MEK fear death as children fear to go- in the dark ; and...religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Jsature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...conquered dread of death, and unreasonable love of life. ATTERBURY. r death as children fear to go into the as that natural fear in children is increased with...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. LORD BACON: Essay II., Of Death. It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...when Christ cometh, 80 He shall not find faith upon the earth. II MEN fear death as children fear logo in the dark; and as that natural fear in children...wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and 5 religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IL 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 - 1877 - 1014 pages
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he sliatt not And faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and...death, as the wages of sin and passage to another ^orld, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious... | |
 | Henry Lowndes - 1877 - 72 pages
...He that fears death dieth many times over. Bacon says, " 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 again, " as was well said, ' Pompa mortis magis terret quam mors ipsa.' Groans and convulsions... | |
 | 1878 - 312 pages
...double. I admit the number,' said I, ' mentioned.' Piato, Sophist. 219, 22O ; Ion, 537, C. sqq. MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. By him that spake only as a philosopher, and natural man, it was well said, ' Pompa mortis magis terret... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...enlnrgi'd 1035). 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...Divine judgment. II.—OF DEATH. (1612, enlarged 1625.) MEN fear Death as children fear to go in 1 the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. 2 Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall... | |
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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... 
