 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 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.... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...(1612; enlarged 1625). Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear of children is increased with tales, so is the other....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.... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pages
...omnibus omnia large Tellus ipsa parit, naturaque dœdala rerum. VIII. — Translate into Greek Prose. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of ein and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...foretold, that when Christ cometh, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." ^ (2) //. OF DEA TH. MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark...natural fear in children is increased with tales, 2 so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin 3 and passage to another... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...perfidious;' and yet they are not ' covered with shame.' OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with talcs, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...being foretold that, when "Christ cometh," He shall not "find faith upon the Earth." OF DEATH.2 MEK fear death as children fear to go- in the dark ; and...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Jsature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...conquered dread of death, and unreasonable love of life. ATTERBURY. r death as children fear to go into the as that natural fear in children is increased with...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. LORD BACON: Essay II., Of Death. It is worthy the observing that there is no... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...when Christ cometh, 80 He shall not find faith upon the earth. II MEN fear death as children fear logo in the dark; and as that natural fear in children...wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and 5 religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...it being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IL 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.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...men; it being foretold, that when Christ cometh, he sliatt not And faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark...death, as the wages of sin and passage to another ^orld, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious... | |
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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... 
