 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...terrible. It is worthy of observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates10 and masters the fear of Death ; and therefore Death is no such terrible enemy when a man has so many attendants11 about him that can win the combat of him.12 Revenge triumphs over Death ;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...tribute due unto nature, is weak. It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man produce this false economy in perfection. The other...importunity, only to open another, and a wider, to nspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...terrible. It ia worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates3 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy wheii a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over... | |
 | Thomas Gribble - 1880 - 488 pages
...orators, ' There is no passion in the mind of a man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable,... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man extreme cases, sanctified as it is by all religious antiquity, is apt (it must be confessed) flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates 6 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Kevenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1881 - 416 pages
...passions have it, as well as the negation of all passion. ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death...therefore, death is no such terrible enemy when a man MISTAKEN MARTYRDOM. 49 hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...like, shaw death terrible. 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...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...like, shew death terrible. 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 nmu hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death;... | |
 | Education, Higher - 1882 - 498 pages
...upon the summer's velvet buds." 0) 1. Analyse Bacon's essay, Of Truth. 2. Comment on the following : hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him." (ii| " They be two things, — unity and uniformity." (iii) " All colours will agree in the dark."... | |
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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... 
