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...necks of men. And what we ought to do to redeem ourselves from it. It has been said by Lord Bacon that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death — revenge, love, honour, grief, fear, pity even, and niceness and satiety have continually prevailed...

...simplicity) to restrain by law or any other deterrent force any strong bent of 1 Cf. Bacon's saying: "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and roasters the fear of death." 2 I cannot accept Classen's text nor his interpretation here. The scholiast...

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...fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. 704 Essays 'Of Death' There is no passlon our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win...

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...Rochefoucauld. In "On Death" Bacon says: "Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark . . . [but] there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . ." La Rochefoucauld, one of Johnson's favorite writers, agreed with Bacon: "how false is ... that...

...weeping, and blacks,0 and obsequies,0 and the like, shew0 death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates0 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath...

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