 | George Burgess - 1851 - 348 pages
...Seneca, " but even the fastidious can wish to die." Lord Bacon makes the remark, 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 aspires to it : grief flies to it : fear preoccupates... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...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...pre-occupieth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity — which is the tenderest of affections — provoked many to die out of mere... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it : nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...by mine opinion, carrieth away the praise. Ascham. VI. IT is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it, nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...mates and mafters the Fear of Death. And therefore Death is no fuch terrible Enemy, when a man hath fo many Attendants about him, that can win the Combat of him. Revenge triumphs over Death ; Love flights it ; Honour afpireth to it ; Grief flieth to it ; Fear pre-occupateth it : Nay, we read, after... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...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...it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...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...it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity, which is the tenderest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...blacks1 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...him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor... | |
 | John Baillie - 1856 - 416 pages
...remarked that " there is no passion in the mind of man so weak hut it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour...it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth it." In a sense which Bacon did not personally know, dear Adelaide "mastered" the last enemy. "I feel,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...complete angthing, to learn angthing thoroughly, or to reform oneself.' ANNOTATIONS. ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.' Of all the instances that can be given of recklessness of life, there is none that comes near that... | |
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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... 
