 | Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 Seiten
...forget to Live. Moft Men fpend the firft part of their Lives in rendring the other miferable. •* Men fear Death, as Children fear to go in the Dark ; and as that natural Fear is encreafed in Children with Talcs , fo is the other. Certainly the Stoickr beftowed too much coft... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - 528 Seiten
...; it being foretold, that Chrift at his Second Coming fhall not find Faith upon Earth. U, Of DEATH. MEN fear DEATH, as Children fear to go in the Dark....as that natural Fear in Children is increafed with frightful Tales, fo is the other alfo. Certainly, the Meditation of DEATH, as DEATH is the Wages of... | |
 | 1781 - 364 Seiten
...childhlainr ? ANTIQJJARIUS. N° 87. N°8y. TUEsDAY, March 7. 17^0. Men fear death as children fear fa go in the dark ; and, as that natural fear in children is increafed -with tales, fo is the other. BACoN. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of fuperftition, which, in all nations,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 Seiten
...Of death and judgment, houv'u and hell, Who oft doth think; must needs die well. SIR WALTER RAI.EOK: 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 Seiten
...: it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find " faith upon earth." OF DEATH. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 Seiten
...men ; it being foretold, that when Christ coraeth, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IVJ.EN 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,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 Seiten
...foretold, that when Christ cometh, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." ©f «Dr atl). JVlEN 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,"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 Seiten
...: it being foretold, that when Christ cometh he shall not Jind faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. 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,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...correctly anticipated. Certainly it is a general truth, as safe to reason from as any other, that " men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark " ; and yet it is so far from being universally true, as Lord Bacon remarks, " that there is no passion in... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 734 Seiten
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? " I am, &c. " ANTIQUARIUS." No. 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. 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. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which,... | |
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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. 
