 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - עמוד 3081850תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 368 דפים
...weeping, and 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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 דפים
...weeping, and blacks,2 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 mates2 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 372 דפים
...passage such as we have quoted. Take an average extract from Bacon's Essays: " It is worth 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... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 356 דפים
...passage such as we have quoted. Take an average extract from Bacon's Essays: " It is worth 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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 דפים
...surroundings of death terrify more than death itself." It is worthy the observing that there is no passion of 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... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1913 - 328 דפים
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 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 דפים
...otherwise it hath," he paraphrases Bacon more loosely. But Bacon's sentence (in the 1612 edition), " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but masters the fear of death," is copied as literally as Drummond's context will allow. It must VOL. II... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1917 - 32 דפים
...interests. Bacon, in his essay Of Death, remarks that the fear of death does not much affect mankind. ' 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... | |
 | 1899 - 402 דפים
...instinctive love of life and persuade to self-destruction. It is an observation of Lord Bacon 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 aspired to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear... | |
 | 1917 - 648 דפים
...overcome fear. Of the fear of ghosts sometimes seems true that which Bacon says of the fear of death, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters it. The Sia Indians of North Mexico had a masterful way of dealing with the ghost of a slain enemy... | |
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