 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...world, was wonderfully glad to hear that there were fuch echoes of him founding in remote parts. (Ibid.) OF DEATH. Men fear Death, as children fear to go in...as that natural fear in children is increafed with tales, fo is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of fin and paflage to another... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 342 pages
...: it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh, "he shall not "find faith upon the earth." l II.— 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 of sin,... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - Explorers - 1893 - 730 pages
...annihilation, as all savages do, with loathing and ineffable horror. ' He fears death,' to quote Bacon, 'as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.' The African mind must change radically before it can ' think... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English Literature - 1894 - 342 pages
...bright things come to confusion. 1 Black. • 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,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1894 - 328 pages
...things come to confusion. 1 Black. * Caprice, whim. FRANCIS BACON. OF DEATH. [From the Essays.] If EN 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,... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1895 - 376 pages
...which we are ignorant deters us from consummating the act. And now to some tests from Bacon's essays Of Death! Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark, so runs the opening phrase of the first essay. The dread of the unknown, which plays such a part in... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. a. BACON— Essays. them o'er the summer flood; And increased with tales, so is the other. 6. BACON— Essays. Of Death. What then remains, but that we... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...men : it being foretold that, when Christ cometh he shall not find faith upon the earth. — Essay I. 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,... | |
 | Woods Hutchinson - Evolution - 1898 - 266 pages
...principal " consolations " of religion consists in allaying the fear which it has itself conjured up. "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." (Bacon.) The simplest and most primitive form in which this... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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... | |
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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. 
