 ... one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man...  Collectanea: 1st-2d Series - Page 132by Charles Crawford - 1907Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, *' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION.* Religion being the chief band of human society, it is a... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION.* Religion being the chief band of human society, it is a... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, * " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguishetl! envy : f " Extiuctus amabitur idem." BACON. 1. I HAVE often thought upon death, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy : " Extinctus amabitur idem." OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief bond... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis ;" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy. — " Extinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. Religion being the chief... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis''9 when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabitur idem."i8 III.— OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief band of human society, it... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...sweetest canticle is ' Nunc dimittis '* — when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also — that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. 'Extinctus amabitur idem.' f • The Third Essay, ' Of Unity in Religion,' is an enlargement of one which" had... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1903 - 664 pages
...viii., and that the sentiment itself is extremely common in all writers of the period and previously. And, of course, we may assume that the verse suggested...thus : — "Death hath this also, that it openeth the Kate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : Eztinctus amabitur idem." In Jonson's supposed work the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, ' nunc dimittis,' when a man hath obtained worth, ends, nnd expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy ; ' extinctus amabitur idem.' " — Lord Bacon, Essay ii. t Ever since the time of Cicero the subject of the immortality... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis ;" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. vr K extinguished envy. — " Extinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. Religion being the chief... | |
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