 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Pàgina 3081850Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Baillie - 1859 - 440 pàgines
...chap. ii. 3." "April 14. Received fourth proof-sheet, to chap. iii. 1." Lord Bacon has remarked that " there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge trinmphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupioth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pàgines
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It ii worthy the observing, that there is uo 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pàgines
...weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates2 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 418 pàgines
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," ete.— vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it," ete. — Essay on Death,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 416 pàgines
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," etc. — vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it," etc. — Essay on Death,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 448 pàgines
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," ete.—vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it," ete.—Essny on Death,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pàgines
...weepingt and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It u worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates aud masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pàgines
...Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail with shame as to be firaml false and perfidious." "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates i subdues) and masters the fear of death." "It is a happy thing when religion is well contained within... | |
 | Edward Balme Wheatley Balme - 1862 - 194 pàgines
...outrageous violence, without, apparently, any earthly object to be gained by it ; a striking proof that ' there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it masters fear.' One of the arguments of the English authorities to show that the testing of character... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pàgines
...Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. HEBZE. FEAR OF DEATH. — 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 ; <md therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that... | |
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