 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...Divine judgment. II.— OF DEATH. (1612, enlarged 1625.) MEN fear Death as children fear to go in 1 the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak.2 Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...of men : it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, 80 He shall not find faith upon the earth. II MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark;...wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and s religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...dread of death, and unreasonable love of life. ATTERBURY. Men fear death as children fear to go into d empire, science and taste, all the comforts and...which the inhabitants of other countries gained noth aod passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, BO is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death,...of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and reli gious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...generations of men : it being foretold, that when Christ cometh "Ho shall not find faith upon the earth. " \ ctor," said he to Goldsmith, "what harm does it do a man to call him Holofernes?" mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...it being foretold that, when " Christ cometh," He shall not "find faith upon the Earth." OF DEATH. 2 MEN fear death as children fear to go- in the dark;...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 - 1881 - 292 pages
...when Christ cometh, 80 He shall not find faith upon the earth. II MEN fear death as children fear logo in the dark; and as that natural fear in children...wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and 3 religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...foretold, that, when "Christ crmeth," he shall not " find faith upon the earth." II.— OF DEATH.' V MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...generations of men : it being foretold, that wheu 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find fuith upon earth.' OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in...it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religions meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some... | |
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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... 
