 | William Johnson Fox - 1838 - 72 pągines
...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 mates and...; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity, (which is the tenderest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pągines
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no wns and garlands personal ; the style of emperor, which the great kings aspircth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it j nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pągines
...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 mates and...honour aspireth to it : grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest... | |
 | Charles Calistus Burleigh - 1845 - 164 pągines
...for five hundred dollars less than he had once been offered for it. Lord Bacon, that " there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death," each reader must determine for himself. But none can fail to see that they have a most important bearing... | |
 | 1846 - 528 pągines
...of Law and Philosophy. (Essays Civil and Moral, 11.) " It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and...death. Love slights it. Honour aspireth to it. Grief flyeth to it. Fear preoccupateth it." The question, however, is not concerning the more or less degree... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pągines
...Macks, 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 mates and...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Uevenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flid h to it ; fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pągines
...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 mates and...man hath so many attendants about him that can win the^combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth... | |
 | 1846 - 528 pągines
...principles of Law and Philosophy. (Essays Civil and Moral, 11.) " It u worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and...man hath so many attendants about him that can win th« combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death. Love slights it. Honour aspireth to it. Grief flyeth... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 548 pągines
...will he give for his life." The aphorism of Bacon is more worthy of consideration : — " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death." V" No ; the murderer is neither effectually deterred, nor adequately punished. The punishment falls... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 546 pągines
...will he give for his life. " The aphorism of Bacon is more worthy of consideration : — " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death." No ; the murderer is neither effectually deterred, nor adequately punished. The punishment falls upon... | |
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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... 
