 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pàgines
...death terrihle. It is worthy the ohserving, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak hut it mates and masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrihle enemy, when a man hath so many attendants ahout him that can win the^comhat of him. Revenge... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pàgines
...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...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief fiieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth it : nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pàgines
...show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so wsak, but it mates and masters the fear of death ; and,...enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him thai can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pàgines
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthj the observing, that there is no of experience ; the one sort keeping dangers afar...then trust to the agil ity.of their wit to ward off ; lovle slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-oecupateth it : nay, we read,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible, /sit is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants "I about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour... | |
 | 1850 - 504 pàgines
...die schöne Stelle aus Lord Bacon's Essays : It is worthy the obsercing , that there is no pas~ sion in the mind of man so weak , but it mates and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no lerrible enemy, tchen a man has so many attendants about him, that can win the combat o/ him. Revenge... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 362 pàgines
...Seneca, " but even the fastidious can wish to die." Lord Bacon makes the remark, 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 aspires to it : grief flies to it : fear preoccupates... | |
 | George Burgess - 1850 - 348 pàgines
...Seneca, " but even the fastidious can wish to die." Lord Bacon makes the remark, 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 aspires to it: grief flies to it: fear preoccupates... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pàgines
...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...death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief fiieth to it; fear preoccupateth * it, nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
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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... 
