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" It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed... "
The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ... - Page 6
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680
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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Better faith he, £)ui Finem Vitte extremum inter Munera ponit Naturte.9 It is as Natural to Die, as to be Born ; and to a...as the other. He that dies in an earneft purfuit is like one that is wounded in hot Blood ; who, for the time, fcarce feels the Hurt ; and therefore a...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, ' qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae.'7 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...muñera ponat naturœ: [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature.] It is aa natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant,...one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt...
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The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General ..., Volume 6

George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 pages
...which will continue to rise and fall as long as the least respiration remains. — Lord Bacon says : " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, one is as painful as the other." The imagination naturally shrouds the great mystery of death with...
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The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana, Volume 6

American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pages
...will continue to rise and fall as long аз the least respiration remains. — Lord Bacon says : " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, one is as painful аз the other." The imagination naturally shrouds the great mystery of death with...
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Temple Bar, Volume 54

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 pages
...made his dread appearance. " It is," says that great man to whose death we have just alluded — " it is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little...infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other," but it matters much how that death comes. In Hazlitt's beautiful but somewhat cynical image, our mother...
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The education of mothers of families; or, The civilisation of the human race ...

Louis Aimé Martin - 1860 - 412 pages
...forfeiture, no expiation, but a trial ; no accursed creations, no wrathful and vindictive God, but a * It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other. — Bacon's Essays. f It will be perceived from these arguments, that the author disbelieves the fall...
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An index to familiar quotations selected principally from British authors ...

John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...the princes. PSALM LXXXII. Verse 7. Acquit yourselves like men. LILLG. — The Christian Hero, Act V. It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. BACON. — On Death, Essay II. The slender debt to nature 'a quickly paid, Discharged, perchance, with...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany, Volume 12

1863 - 910 pages
...compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers. It is as natural to die as to be bom ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt...
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Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...extremum inter munera ponat naturae : [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature.] It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt...
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