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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... "
Bacon's Essays: With Annotations - Page 15
by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 550 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...saith he, "qui finem vita- extremum inter munera ponat nature." 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 purmiit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and...
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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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Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers Engaged in the War Against the ...

James Grant Wilson - 1862 - 212 pages
...and has always been a great favorite in the army. COL. »AVIS. He that aies in an earnest pnrtuit, Is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who, for...and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. Влcт. Col. JOHN A. DAVIS, of the 46th Regiment Illinois Volunteers, was born in...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...th« other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, >i like one that is wounded in hot blood, who, :: r the time, scarce feels the hurt : and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat liât is good, doth avert the dolours of death. bit. above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is...
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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...and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death ; but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, " Lord, now lettest thou thy...
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Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the Country

Alexander Smith - 1863 - 338 pages
...followers It is as naturall to die as to be borne ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painfull as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is...the time scarce feels the hurt ; and, therefore, a minde fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the sadness of death. But above all, believe...
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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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