 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Literary Collections - 1989 - 450 pages
...And what we ought to do to redeem ourselves from it. It has been said by Lord Bacon that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death — revenge, love, honour, grief, fear, pity even, and niceness and satiety have continually prevailed... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 370 pages
...sentence in Lord Bacons Essays/'Death is no such formidable enemy, since a man has so many champions about him that can win the combat of him — Revenge triumphs over Death; Love slights it; Honour courts it; Dread of Disgrace chooses it; Grief flies to it; Fear anticipates it." [The edition Smith... | |
 | Terence Irwin - Philosophy, Ancient - 1995 - 592 pages
...restrain by law or any other deterrent force any strong bent of 1 Cf. Bacon's saying: "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and roasters the fear of death." 2 I cannot accept Classen's text nor his interpretation here. The scholiast... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. 704 Essays 'Of Death' There is no passlon our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or...address) Let every natlon know, whether it wishes us wel 705 Essays 'Of Death' It is as natural to die as to be bom; and to a little infant, perbaps, the one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...Death, is no such terrible Enemie, when a man hath so many Attendants, about him, that can 25 winne the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over Death; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it; [delivery from Ignominy chuseth it;] Griefe flieth to it; Feare pre-occupateth it; Nay we reade, after... | |
 | Robert Bernasconi, Tommy Lee Lott - Social Science - 2000 - 236 pages
...terrors: "There is no passion in the mind of men so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flyeth to it; fear pre-occupateth it." cousin-marriages, very few would be made. The multitude of marriage... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 226 pages
...In "On Death" Bacon says: "Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark . . . [but] there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . ." La Rochefoucauld, one of Johnson's favorite writers, agreed with Bacon: "how false is ... that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates0 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death...many attendants about him that can win the combat of him.0 Revenge triumphs over death; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it;0 Grief flieth to it; Fear... | |
 | Deborah Brunton - History - 2004 - 332 pages
...terrors: There is no passion in the mind of men so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flyeth to it; fear pre-occupateth it. Exactly the same kind of considerations apply to marriage. The... | |
 | Virginia M. Fellows - Fiction - 2006 - 383 pages
...sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. act V, sc. 2 Chapter Thirteen Tudors Out Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honour aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear preoccupateth [anticipates] it. In March 1603, Francis realized that his mother, the queen of England,... | |
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It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the 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... 
