 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...disco| loured Face, and Friends weeping, and Blackes, and Obsequies, and the like, shew Death Terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the minde of man, so weake, but it Mates, and Masters, the Feare of Death : And therefore Death, is no... | |
 | Alexander Henley Grant - Church year - 1869 - 646 pages
...of all religion ; all noble and ignoble passions have it, as well as the negation of all passion. " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but...Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspires to it ; grief flieth to it j fear pre-occupieth it ; nay, we read after Otho the Emperor had... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 pages
...convulsions, and a discoloured face, and friends weeping, and the like, show death terrible. It is worth observing that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when man hath so many attendants... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.3 It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates 4 and masters the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love * Work. In what sense? — Embaseth (Fr. em. or en ; Lat. in; Gr. £a<rt?, base; W. bat, shallow ;... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Eevenge triumphs over death ; love * Work. In what sense?— Embaseth (Fr. em, or en; Lat. in; Gr.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...discoloured face, and friends 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 2 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...weeping, and blacks,1 4 and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing,' 5 that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates1 6 and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1875 - 542 pages
...looked round upon a yelling mob with an unflinching countenance. To adopt the commonplace of orators, " 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 preoccupateth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...shew death terrible. ao It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in Essay 2] ©f Beat!) 5 the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief 25 flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
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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... 
