 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] - Page 3081850Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...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... | |
 | William Jevons - Ethics - 1827 - 424 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. xvi. " It is worthy of observing," says Lord Bacon, "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 - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...ipsa'," (•" The pageantry of death terrifies more than death itself.") It is worthy of remark', that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak', but it masters the fear of death'. Revenge'. . triumphs over death'; love'. . slights it'; honour'. . aspires... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Death - 1838 - 72 pages
...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Calistus Burleigh - Capital punishment - 1845 - 164 pages
...sold at last for five hundred dollars less than he had once been offered for it. Lord Bacon, that " there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death," each reader must determine for himself. But none can fail to see that they have a most important bearing... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...weeping, and Macks, 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... | |
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