 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.]. - 399 ページLiterary gems 著 - 1826全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1884 - 498 ページ
...they are mischievous, so end they unfortunate. Here are a few sentences from his Essay on Death: " Men fear Death as children fear to go in the dark....children is increased with tales, so is the other. " It is worthy the observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 ページ
...damned, to the devils, to hell, without either end or ease, or any patience to endure it. Henry Soul*. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark...as that natural fear in children is increased with talcs, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and the passage to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1886 - 304 ページ
...of men : it being foretold, that when Christ cometh. &1 He shall not find faith upon the earth. II MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark;...wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and j religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations... | |
 | 1886 - 894 ページ
..." that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death." Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...children is increased with tales, so is the other. ... It is groans and convulsions and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and Blacks and obsequies... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 684 ページ
...' that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.' Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...children is increased with tales, so is the other It Is groans and convulsions and a discoloured face, and friends weeping, and Blacks and obsequies... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 ページ
...being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," He shall not '' find faith upon the earth." OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark;...Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages * Death is the inevitable lot of fool and philosopher, and nothing distinguishes the one from the other... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 ページ
...cometh " He shall not find faith upon the earth." II. — OF DEATH. (1612 ; somewhat enlarged, 1625 ) MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, 1 This is the only direct quotation in the Essays from Montaigne. the contemplation of death, as the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1891 - 1190 ページ
...Edition 2025. No pleasnre is comparahle to the standing npon the vantage-gronnd of trnth. Of Trnth. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natnral fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 ページ
...us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (III. 1.) And in Essay 2 : Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. And while we are observing these coincidences, the legal knowledge displayed by the dramatist must come... | |
 | Lady Isabel Burton - 1893 - 730 ページ
...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...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... | |
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