 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 fear...  Literary gems [ed. by J.S.]. - Página 399por Literary gems - 1826Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 páginas
...DEATH.* MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children in increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly,...religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto ui * See note A, at the end of the Esiaj i. tare, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes... | |
 | American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 páginas
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 páginas
...bein°j foretold that when Christ cometh, he shall not find f aim v/pon the earth.6 , * II. OF DEATH. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark:...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplatiori•jjfjfcath, as the wages of sin and passage to another worl^C is holy and religious;... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 páginas
...it necessarily involved violence and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due nnto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 páginas
...and suffering. " Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, аз the wages of sin and passage to another world, is...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 792 páginas
...Certainly," as Bacon says in his essay on death, " the contemplation of death, as the wages of si a and passage to another world, is holy and religious...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." So exaggerated have been the notions of the pain of the last moments of life, that it was long considered... | |
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1860 - 596 páginas
...annihilation, as all savages do, with loathing and ineffable horror. " He fears death," to quote Bacon, " as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other." The African mind must change radically before it can "think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 páginas
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural tear in children is increased with tales, so a the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as... | |
 | 1864 - 704 páginas
...added to the uncertain date of my years. » , • •••••••••••••••• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to... | |
 | Devout thoughts - 1867 - 568 páginas
...the delight with which our gracious Lord will welcome and bless His faithful servants." — IScott. " Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...the contemplation of death as the wages of sin, and the passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature,... | |
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