 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 488 pages
...attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune. DEATH. — Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark...children is increased with tales, so is the other. SIIAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY,— IN THE FUTURE. The young spring rnorn breaks brightly on а scene Of festival... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...even hand, by depressing another's fortune. DEATH. — Men fear death, as children fear to go in tho dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. SHAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY,— IN THE FUTURE. The young spring morn breaks brightly on a scene Of festival... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...death a passage to a better life: his hand has unlocked the gates of everlasting bliss. — Wasse. MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark:...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes a mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...of heaven and home. WORDSWORTH. XL. THE HOUR OF DEATH. " MEN few death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. * * * He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1851 - 528 pages
...are repeated again, vi. 35. " Men fear death," says Bacon, (Essay ii.) " as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." ' First, then, I say that the mind, $<:.] Ver. 94. Primum animum dico, mentem quern scepe vocamus,... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - Cosmology - 1851 - 528 pages
...are repeated again, vi. 35. " Men fear death," says Bacon, (Essay ii.) " as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." * First, then, I say that the mind, §c'] Ver. 94. Primum animum dico, mentem quern saipe vocamus,... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...call in as well the best acquainted with your body, as the best reputed of for his faculty. DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark...the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and the passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...being foretold, that when Chrift cometh, He jhall not find Faith upon the Earth. ii. Of Death. |EN fear Death, as Children fear to go in the Dark. And as that Natural Fear in Children is encreafed with Tales, fo is the other. Certainly, the Contemplation of Death, as the Wages of Sin,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...it being foretold 'that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the eartfi.6 II. OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark:...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...as a king or a queen." TUPPER. " Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as thai natural fear in children is increased with tales,...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." — BACON. THE INTERJECTION. Interjections are followed by the objective case... | |
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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. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the... 
