 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...imprisonment, • '*»Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death. SHAKSPEARE. THE SAME SUBJECT. MEN fear death as children fear to go in the dark...and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | William Bailey - 1826 - 244 pages
...philosopher and to his faith as a christian. As Lord Bacon says children fear death, so did Johnson ; children fear to go in the dark, and as that natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other. On another occasion, Johnson told Boswell, that he ' never had a moment in which death was not terrible... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...Hafeland. Men fear death, as children fear lhe dark; aml as that natural fear is increased by frightful tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and the passage to another world, is pious and wholesome; but the fear of it, as a debt due to nature,... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1859 - 692 pages
...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 natural...children is increased with tales, so is the other." The African mind must radically change before it can " think upon death, and find it the least of all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 pages
...me', I should concur with the Greek poet', who said', that' " Such an age would be a mortal evil'." Men fear death', as children fear to go in the dark';...and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales', so is the other'. Certainly', the contemplation of death', as the wages of sin', and the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...it being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...it being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IL OF DEATH. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark...and passage to another world, is holy and religious j but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1838 - 72 pages
...this kind, and contains much solid and profound wisdom on the subject. {" Men fear death, (says he,) as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural...the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and the passage to another world is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature,... | |
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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... 
