 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 pages
...from Bacon's ' Essay on Death :' — ' Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as natural fear in children is increased with tales,...holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute unto nature, is weak.' Even, however, in such cases as these the attempt to express the same thoughts... | |
 | 1970 - 748 pages
...House of Death: Hiding the Dying Elder in a Mental Hospital ELIZABETH MARKSON Francis Bacon said, "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and...natural fear in children is increased with tales, so in the other." Perhaps this is one reason why so little attention has been paid to the conditions under... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1973 - 226 pages
...Tulare and King Counties, California] A Hiding Place tO Die Elizabeth Markson Francis Bacon said, "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as chat natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." Much of this fear of death... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare - 1974 - 1758 pages
...Tulare and King Counties, California] A Hiding Place tO Die Elizabeth Markson Francis Bacon said, "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other." Much of this fear of death is valuator for survival, but it has also tended to obscure the actual conditions... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...sentences—memorable and quotable. "What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer." "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and...children is increased with tales so is the other." "Revenge is a kind of wild justice . . ." "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."... | |
 | Beth B. Hess - 1980 - 622 pages
...the old people in their care. 15 A Hiding Place to Die* Elizabeth Markson Francis Bacon said, "Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other." Much of this fear of death is valuable for survival, but it has also tended to obscure the actual conditions... | |
 | Anne Drury Hall - 2010 - 217 pages
..."reconsiderations" often invoke a text with special authority. "Of Death" starts with the superciliousness of, "Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other"; it ends, however, with, "But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis" (Essays,... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...as painful as the other." 24 Although contemplation of death may be "holy and religious," he says, "the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak" (8). J. Guillemand's A Combat Betwixt Man and Death, translated from the French by Edward Grimestone... | |
 | Issam A. Awad, AANS Publications Committee - 1995 - 274 pages
...Churchill Livingstone; 1992. CHAPTER 8 The Philosophy of Dying and Death Howard H. Kaufman, MD Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark, and as the natural fear of children is increased with tales, so is the other, — Francis Bacon (1561-1624)... | |
 | Ronald Carter, John McRae - 1997 - 613 pages
...(Essay 33). Of Death is a good example of how Bacon handles a vast subject in an accessible way: Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark: and,...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Many of Bacon's essays raise issues fundamental to the era. For example, Of Revenge explores the notion... | |
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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... 
