 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...men, it being foretold that when Christ cometh, "He shall not find faith upon the earth." OF DBA 777. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 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 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... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...of men: it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," He shall not '' find faith upon the earth." OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go...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 * Death... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...to an end." Death . . . openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. 1073 Bacon: Essays. Of Death. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. 1074 Bacon : Essays. Of Death. Death is not an end. It is a new impulse. 1075 Henry Ward Beecher :... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 510 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...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... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...bright things come to confusion. 1 Black. 2 Caprice, whim. FRANCIS BACON. OF DEATH. [From the Essays.] 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...more vile than to be cowards with regard to men, and brave with regard to God ?" II.—OF DEATH. 1 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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1891 - 1190 pages
...Edition 2025. No pleasnre is comparahle to the standing npon the vantage-gronnd of trnth. Of Trnth. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natnral fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1892 - 460 pages
...witches, who, as they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate." Here are a few sentences from his Essay of Death : " Men fear Death as children fear to go...the dark. And as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. . . . " It is worthy the observing that there is no passion... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (III. 1.) And in Essay 2 : Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. And while we are observing these coincidences, the legal knowledge displayed by the dramatist must come... | |
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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. 
