 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 - Page lby Francis Bacon - 1884 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, 'qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours2 of death: but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, ' Nunc dimittis,'9 when a... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Better, saith ho, ' qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae.' It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little...the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon something that is good doth avert the dolors of death ; but above all believe it the sweetest canticle... | |
 | 1909 - 378 pages
...extremum inter munera ponat nature? [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 that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, » Conquers. 4 Anticipates. • In Plutarch's " Lives." ' Fastidiousness. * Juvenal. scarce feels the... | |
 | Richard Freeborn - 1985 - 320 pages
...world of the revolution. In his famous essay 'On Death' Francis Bacon wrote: 'It is as natural to man to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.' Carl Sagan used this quotation at the head of his chapter on what he called ' the amniotic universe... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 pages
...more divergent religious views even within the Church of England. Bacon, for example, points out that "It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." 24 Although contemplation of death may be "holy and religious," he says, "the fear of it, as a tribute... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist We all labour against our own cure, for death... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...and trying vainly to encompass a task which called for many hands and brains. Once Bacon had written, "He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt." Sir Francis might have been speaking of himself; his own death was to come in almost this fashion.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...death. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), English philosopher, cssayisi, statesman. An Essay on Death. • . English author. Letter. 21 Nov. 1984 (published...Letters Between Samuel Bullcr.ind £. M. Л. Savage 1 FRANCIS BACON (1 561 -1 626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Death" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 pages
...And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald, trans.) Persian poet It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. There is death in the pot. Bible: 2 Kings 4: 40 Birth, copulation, and death. That's all the facts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...preparations made it appear more fearful. Better saith he, quifincm vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae* It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit5 is like one that is wounded in hot blood;6 who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore... | |
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