 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 pages
...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:...death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it: nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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...Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it ; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it: nay, we read,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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...Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it ; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it: nay, we read,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour * See note A at the end. aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it: nay, we read,... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...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;...death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 424 pages
...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...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flietlt to it ; fear preoccupieth it." &c. Bacons Essays. Essay ii. NOTE U. p. 179. " I have hitherto,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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...about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumph* over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupieth... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1838 - 72 pages
...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...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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...Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspircth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it j nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had... | |
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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... 
