 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...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 33by George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marvin Henry Bovee - 1878 - 340 pages
...for they know not what they do!" CHAPTER VII. THE DEATH MENACE AS A DETERRENT OF CRIME. There IB no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death. — LOUD BACON. IF the many popular fallacies which have entered largely into the composition of human... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...terrible. It is worthy of observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates 10 and masters the fear of Death; and therefore Death is no such terrible enemy when a man has so many attendants 11 about him that can win the combat of him. 12 Revenge triumphs over Death;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. zo Jt is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief 2s flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...terrible. It is worthy of observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates10 and masters the fear of Death ; and therefore Death is no such terrible enemy when a man has so many attendants11 about him that can win the combat of him.12 Revenge triumphs over Death ;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. It is worthy the observing that there is no ct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy...importunity, only to open another, and a wider, to nspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...terrible. It ia worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates3 and masters the fear of death ; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy wheii a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over... | |
 | William Thomson - 1923 - 582 pages
...carrying with it the previous weak syllables. Sense-groups. 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. The speech-phrases end at ving, weak, death. 6. RHYTHM. It had been tested before it was taken to Nassau,... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pages
...and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible (4). 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 (5); and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - 1924 - 1026 pages
..." There is no passion in the mind of men so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flyeth to it; fear preoccupateth it." Exactly the same kind of considerations apply to marriage. The... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pages
...blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no gilded mast, Superior honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor... | |
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