 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...of heaven and home. WORDSWORTH. XL. THE HOUR OF DEATH. " MEN few death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...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,... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1851 - 528 pages
...are repeated again, vi. 35. " Men fear death," says Bacon, (Essay ii.) " as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." ' First, then, I say that the mind, $<:.] Ver. 94. Primum animum dico, mentem quern scepe vocamus,... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1851 - 528 pages
...are repeated again, vi. 35. " Men fear death," says Bacon, (Essay ii.) " as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." * First, then, I say that the mind, §c'] Ver. 94. Primum animum dico, mentem quern saipe vocamus,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...he shall not " find faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is...religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto na* See note A, at the end of the Essays. ture, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...call in as well the best acquainted with your body, as the best reputed of for his faculty. DEATH. 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 - 1852 - 394 pages
...being foretold, that when Chrift cometh, He jhall not find Faith upon the Earth. ii. Of Death. |EN 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...being foretold 'that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the eartfi.6 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... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...as a king or a queen." TUPPER. " Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as thai natural fear in children is increased with tales,...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." — BACON. THE INTERJECTION. Interjections are followed by the objective case of the pronoun of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." H. OF DEATH. Men udes to him talcs, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...foretold, that, when "Christ cometh," he shall not "find faith upon the earth."1 H.— OF DEATH.2 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... | |
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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... 
