 For if a man's mind be deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality and corruptible nature of things, he will easily concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 351850Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...taketh away or mitigate! h fear of death or adverse fortune; which is one of 1 tumultuaria cognitio. the greatest impediments of virtue and imperfections...concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1888 - 560 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune,...is one of the greatest impediments of virtue, and imperfeetions of manners. For if a man's mind be deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality... | |
 | 1891 - 478 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune...deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality arid corruptible nature of things, he will easily concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro2 a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune,...concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken ; and went forth the next day and saw a woman... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 pages
...some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh awuy or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune, which...concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1893 - 752 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death, or adverse fortune;...corruptible nature of things, he will easily concur with Kpictetus, who went forth one day, and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune...concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1900 - 544 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune,...concur with Epictetus, who went forth one day and saw a woman weeping for her pitcher of earth that was broken, and went forth the next day and saw a woman... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...fear of death and , adverse fortune, which is one of the greatest impediments to virtue and morality; for if a man's mind be deeply seasoned with the consideration of the mortality and corruptibility of things, he will be as little affected as Epictetus, who one day seeing a woman weeping... | |
 | E. J. Mathew - 1901 - 556 pages
...and some carry their young, and some go empty, and all to and fro a little heap of dust. It taketh away or mitigateth fear of death or adverse fortune ; which is one of the greatest impediments of Hil . . , terram, nothing new upon earth. virtue, and imperfections of manners. For if a man's mind... | |
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