 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
 | John Baillie - 1878 - 462 דפים
...doubtless, taken away from the evil to come.' The scene reminds one of the saying of Lord Bacon, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. How much more that most potent of all passions — the ' resurrection-hope,' which so penetrates and... | |
 | Marvin Henry Bovee - 1878 - 340 דפים
...them, for they know not what they do!" CHAPTER VII. THE DEATH MENACE AS A DETERRENT OF CRIME. There IB no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. — LOUD BACON. IF the many popular fallacies which have entered largely into the composition of human... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 דפים
...weeping, and blacks and obsequies, 8 and the like, show 9 Death terrible. It is worthy of observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates 10 and masters the fear of Death; and therefore Death is no such terrible enemy when a man has so many... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 דפים
...weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. zo Jt 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... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 דפים
...filled up the intervals between the songs of the nightingale. (2) " 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 - 1879 - 356 דפים
...weeping, and blacks and obsequies,3 and the like, show9 Death terrible. It is worthy of observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates10 and masters the fear of Death ; and therefore Death is no such terrible enemy when a man has... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 דפים
...religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. It is worthy the observing that ot an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other econ therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win... | |
 | Thomas Gribble - 1880 - 488 דפים
...unflinching countenance. To adopt the commonplace of orators, ' There is no passion in the mind of a man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | 1881 - 578 דפים
...weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that . The custom of resorting to an oath in extreme cases, sanctified as it is by all religious anti therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win... | |
 | 1881 - 428 דפים
...two wells which are at present disused in consequence of recent suicides." How truly Bacon says that "there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." People have been known to put an end to themselves to escape the pain of toothache, and it was but... | |
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