 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...Simulation.' ESSAY II. OF DEATH. "1 TEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and _LT-1- as that natural fear in children is increased with...of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religions ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children in increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly,...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto ui * See note A, at the end of the Esiaj i. tare, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...bein°j foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find f aim v/pon the earth.6 , * II. OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark:...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplatiori•jjfjfcath, as the wages of sin and passage to another worl^C is holy and religious;... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due nnto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 814 pages
...and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, аз the wages of sin and passage to another world, is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 792 pages
...Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of si a and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he shall not find faith upon the earth. 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.... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - Africa, Central - 1860 - 596 pages
...annihilation, as all savages do, with loathing and ineffable horror. " He fears death," to quote Bacon, " as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other." The African mind must change radically before it can "think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural tear in children is increased with tales, so a the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as... | |
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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... 
