| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. * * * He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that...that is good, doth avert the dolours of death."— Jiacm's Etsays. Derivations. Etymology. Syntax. Mortal. Leaves. Rreath. Violet. Far, v. 3, 1. 2. Eve,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...Better, saith he, ' qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in au earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...Better, saith he, ' qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae.'7 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one...and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolourss of death : but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, ' Nunc dimittis," when a... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Better faith he, £)ui Finem Vitte extremum inter Munera ponit Naturte.9 It is as Natural to Die, as to be Born ; and to a little Infant perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earneft purfuit is like one that is wounded in hot Blood ; who, for the time, fcarce feels the Hurt... | |
| James Martineau - Sermons, English - 1858 - 568 pages
...soon vanish, and even death be robbed of its terrors ; for, to quote the noble words of Lord Bacon, ' He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth best avert the dolors of death.' III. GREAT PRINCIPLES AND SMALL DUTIES. JOHN mi. 14. IF I THEN, YOUR... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...fearful. Better, saith he, mi Jinem vita extremum inter munera ponit -natura.5 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one...therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is food doth ayert the dolours of death: but, above all, elieve it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis,7... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...saith he, "qui finem vita- extremum inter munera ponat nature." It is as natural to die as to be bom ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest purmiit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and... | |
| Louis Aimé Martin - 1860 - 412 pages
...a trial ; no accursed creations, no wrathful and vindictive God, but a * It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other. — Bacon's Essays. f It will be perceived from these arguments, that the author disbelieves the fall... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1878 - 592 pages
..." It is," says that great man to whose death we have just alluded — " it is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other," but it matters much how that death comes. In Hazlitt's beautiful but somewhat cynical image, our mother... | |
| James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 212 pages
...and has always been a great favorite in the army. COL. »AVIS. He that aies in an earnest pnrtuit, Is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who, for...somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. Влcт. Col. JOHN A. DAVIS, of the 46th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, was born in Crawford county,... | |
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