 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
 | John Baillie - 1859 - 440 pages
...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-occupioth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 pages
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It ii worthy the observing, that there is uo 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, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 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 mates2 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1862 - 418 pages
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," ete.— vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it," ete. — Essay on Death,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1862 - 416 pages
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," etc. — vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it," etc. — Essay on Death,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 448 pages
...inclinations and motions. And next to that is," ete.—vii. p. 100. 1 " 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. . . . Revenge triumphs over death; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it," ete.—Essny on Death,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...weepingt and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It u worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates aud masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many... | |
 | 1862 - 838 pages
...Task.") " There is no vice that doth so cover a mail with shame as to be firaml false and perfidious." "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates i subdues) and masters the fear of death." "It is a happy thing when religion is well contained within... | |
 | Edward Balme Wheatley Balme - Crime - 1862 - 194 pages
...outrageous violence, without, apparently, any earthly object to be gained by it ; a striking proof that ' there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it masters fear.' One of the arguments of the English authorities to show that the testing of character... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid. HEBZE. FEAR OF DEATH. — 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 ; <md therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that... | |
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