 | Moffatt and Paige - 1883 - 516 pages
...triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupatcth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain...their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers." — Bacon's Essays. Paraphrase. — It deserves to be remarked that there is no passion of the human... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otlio the emperor had slain himself, pity (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked many to die... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honor aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth...compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers.1 Nay, Seneca 2 adds niceness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honor aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth...compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers.1 Nay, Seneca 2 adds niceness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 468 pages
...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honor aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth...compassion to their sovereign, and as the truest sort of followers.1 Nay, Seneca 2 adds niceness and satiety : " Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...triumphs over death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear preoccupatethi it ; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain...truest sort of followers ; nay, Seneca adds niceness 2 and satiety : Cog it a quamdiu eadem feceris ; morivelle, non tantumfortis, aut miser, sed etiamfastidiosus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pages
...My sense she has mated.' — Shakespere. So to give check-mate. ' Preoccnpate. To anticipate. voted1 many to die out of mere compassion to their sovereign,...as the truest sort of followers. Nay, Seneca adds, nicenesa and satiety : ' Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle, non tanturn fortis, aut miser,... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 768 pages
...the country. Stow, Annals, p. 57. Nay we reade, after Otho the emperour had slaine himselfe, pitty, (which is the tenderest of affections) provoked 'many to die, out of meere compassion to their soveraigne, and as the truest sort of followers. Bacon, Ess. np 6. Psaltery,... | |
 | 1886 - 572 pages
...weak, bat it mates and masters the fear of death. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth...read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity provoked many to die out of mere compassion to their sovereign. 'Nay,' Seneca adds, 'A man would die,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it; Grief flieth to it1; Fear pre-occupateth it ; nay we read, after Otho the...quamdiu eadem feceris ; mori velle, non tantum fortis, out miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable,... | |
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... 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 triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth... 
