 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...with Tales, fo is the other. Certainly the contemplation of Death, as the rvages of fin, and paflage to another World, is Holy and Religious ; but the...Nature, is weak. Yet in Religious Meditations, there is fometimes mixture of vanity and fuperftition. You fhall read in fome of the Friers Books of Mortification,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...Generations of Men ; it being foretold, that Chrift at his Second Coming fhall not find Faith upon Earth. U, Of DEATH. MEN fear DEATH, as Children fear to go in...the Dark. And as that natural Fear in Children is increafed with frightful Tales, fo is the other alfo. Certainly, the Meditation of DEATH, as DEATH... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - English essays - 1783 - 340 pages
...anfwer equally well in the cafe of thildllains ? I am, &c. ANTIQ.UARIUS. N° 87. TUESDAY, March 7, i780. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and, as that natural fear in children is increafed •with tales, fa is the other. BACoN. THHRE is in the mind of man a fund of fuperftition,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...Of death and judgment, houv'u and hell, Who oft doth think; must needs die well. SIR WALTER RAI.EOK: MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark,...and religious, but the fear of it, as a tribute due to nature, is weak. It is as natural to die as to be born,* and to a little infant, perhaps the one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...generations of men : it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find " faith upon earth." OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go in...the fear of it, as a 'tribute due unto nature, is wealc, Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...answer 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;...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...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... | |
 | English essays - 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... | |
 | William Bailey - United States - 1826 - 244 pages
...philosopher and to his faith as a christian. As Lord Bacon says children fear death, so did Johnson ; children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other. On another occasion, Johnson told Boswell, that he ' never had a moment in which death was not terrible... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - Geography - 1859 - 692 pages
...annihilation, as all savages do, with loathing and ineffable horror. " He fears death," to quote Bacon, " as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other." The African mind must radically change before it can " think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
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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... 
