 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...cometh he shall not Jind faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death, as children fear to go iry the dark : and as that natural fear in children is...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 - 1820 - 548 pages
...cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is...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... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...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... | |
 | 1823 - 344 pages
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? " I am, &c. " ANTIQUARIUS." No. 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 734 pages
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? " I am, &c. " ANTIQUARIUS." No. 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 340 pages
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? lam, &c. ANTIQCARIUS.' N° 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...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... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...imprisonment, Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. SHAKSPEARE. THE SAME SUBJECT. 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... 
