 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children in increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly,...religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto ui * See note A, at the end of the Esiaj i. tare, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...men: it bein°j foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find f aim v/pon the earth.6 , * II. OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplatiori•jjfjfcath, as the wages of sin and passage to another worl^C is holy and religious;... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due nnto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 814 pages
...and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, аз the wages of sin and passage to another world, is...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of si a and passage to another world, is holy and religious...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...generations of men ; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in...weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification,... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, Central - 1860 - 596 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 change radically before it can "think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural tear in children is increased with tales, so a the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as...weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of Mortification,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...generations of men ; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in...weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification,... | |
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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... 
