 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] - Página 3081850Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 páginas
...any tongue, by mine opinion, carrieth away the praise. Ascham. VI. 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...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 - 1854 - 894 páginas
...weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that eth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. XI. OF GREAT PLACE. Men in great place are t therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 páginas
...go in the dark " ; and yet it is so far from being universally true, as Lord Bacon remarks, " that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it sometimes mates and masters the fear of death." Mori velle, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...weeping, and blacks1 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...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 mates2 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 páginas
...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 mates2 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | 1857 - 652 páginas
...sovereign good of human nature. 2. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind 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 - 1858 - 790 páginas
...weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew 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... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 382 páginas
...chap. ii. 3." "April 14. Received fourth proof-sheet, to chap. iii. 1." Lord Bacon has remarked that " there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge trinmphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth... | |
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