 | English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...not merely their wonderful sayings, among the most remembered and quoted things in English prose : "It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other" ; "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle-age, and old men's nurses, so that a man... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...extremum inter munera ponat nature? [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature]. It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, » Conquers. 4 Anticipates. • In Plutarch's " Lives." ' Fastidiousness. * Juvenal. scarce feels the... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - Civilization, Medieval, in literature - 1987 - 346 pages
...more divergent religious views even within the Church of England. Bacon, for example, points out that "It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." 24 Although contemplation of death may be "holy and religious," he says, "the fear of it, as a tribute... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist We all labour against our own cure, for death... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...and trying vainly to encompass a task which called for many hands and brains. Once Bacon had written, "He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt." Sir Francis might have been speaking of himself; his own death was to come in almost this fashion.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...death. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), English philosopher, cssayisi, statesman. An Essay on Death. • . English author. Letter. 21 Nov. 1984 (published...Letters Between Samuel Bullcr.ind £. M. Л. Savage 1 FRANCIS BACON (1 561 -1 626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Death" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...upon death, and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful. Better saith he, quifincm vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae* It is as...as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit5 is like one that is wounded in hot blood;6 who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Betrer saith he,0 'qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae'.0 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit0 is like one that is wounded in hot blood;0 who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore... | |
 | Peter McDonald - Health & Fitness - 2004 - 228 pages
...and politician .Medical men do not know the drugs they use. nor their prices. De Erroribus Medicorum It is as natural to die as to be born: and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Essays 'Of Death' Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children... | |
 | 136 pages
...all things and well proportioned them, who has ordained their destinies and guided them. The Koran 5. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon 1561-1626 Essays 1625 'Of Death 6. One should not falsely identify himself with the gross... | |
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It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind... 
