 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...him. Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it ; Grief flieth to it ; J Fear pre-occupateth it ; nay we read, after Otho the...of followers. Nay Seneca adds niceness and satiety : Oogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...triumphs over death : love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth2 it; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affeetions) proi ' The pomp of death is more terrible than death it.-vM'.' Probably suggested by a... | |
 | Choice sayings - 1866 - 170 pages
...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over Death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth...their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers." Although the fear of Death may thus be mated and mastered by many weaker passions, they cannot win... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 586 pages
...the country. Stow, Annals, p. 57. Nay we reade, after Otho the emperour had slaine himselfe, pitty, (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die, out of meere compassion to their soveraigne, and as the truest sort of followers. Bacon, Ess. ir. p. 6. Psaltery,... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood - 1866 - 588 pages
...the country. Stow, Annals, p. 57. Nay we reade, after Otho the emperour had slaine himselfe, pitty, (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die, out of meere compassion to their soveraigne, and as the truest sort of followers. Bacon, Ess. II. p. 6. Psaltery,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...illustrations death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain...mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest [8] sort of followers. Nay, Seneca adds, niceness and satiety: " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori... | |
 | Devout thoughts - 1867 - 568 pages
...triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief ilieth to it ; fear pre-oecupateth it : nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain...mere compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest soit of followers It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...triumphs over death: love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth1 it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain...himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) pro1 The pomp of death is more terrible than death itself Probably suggested by a letter of Seneca... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...triumphs over death : love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth3 it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain...himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) pro1 The pomp of death is more terrible than death itself/ Probably suggested by a letter of Seneca... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...flieth to it ; Feare pre-occupateth it; Nay we reade, after Otho the Emperour had slaine himselfe, Pitty (which is the tenderest of Affections) provoked many to die, out of meere compassion to their Soveraigne, and as the truest sort of Followers. Nay Seneca addes Nicenesse... | |
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... mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death: and therefore death is no such ' terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth... 
