 It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the 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...  The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Sayfa 3081850Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 372 sayfa
...passage such as we have quoted. Take an average extract from Bacon's Essays: " It is worth observing that there is no passion in the 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... | |
 | Francis Thompson - 1910 - 356 sayfa
...passage such as we have quoted. Take an average extract from Bacon's Essays: " It is worth observing that there is no passion in the 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... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 sayfa
...surroundings of death terrify more than death itself." It is worthy the observing that there is no passion of the 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 sayfa
...otherwise it hath," he paraphrases Bacon more loosely. But Bacon's sentence (in the 1612 edition), " There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but masters the fear of death," is copied as literally as Drummond's context will allow. It must VOL. II... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1917 - 32 sayfa
...interests. Bacon, in his essay Of Death, remarks that the fear of death does not much affect mankind. ' There is no passion in the 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... | |
 | 1899 - 402 sayfa
...instinctive love of life and persuade to self-destruction. It is an observation of Lord Bacon that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. " Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspired to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear... | |
 | 1917 - 648 sayfa
...overcome fear. Of the fear of ghosts sometimes seems true that which Bacon says of the fear of death, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters it. The Sia Indians of North Mexico had a masterful way of dealing with the ghost of a slain enemy... | |
 | 1917 - 596 sayfa
...overcome fear. Of the fear of ghosts sometimes seems true that which Bacon says of the fear of death, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters it. The Sia Indians of North Mexico had a masterful way of dealing with the ghost of a slain enemy... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1918 - 152 sayfa
...interests. Bacon, in his essay Of Death, remarks that the fear of death does not much affect mankind. ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but !16» C it mates and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when... | |
 | 1920 - 526 sayfa
...A mask to frighten children: Epictetus: Discourses, II., 1. Compare Socrates in Plato's Phaedo, 24. "There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of Death" : said Bacon, in his Essays (II.). He said also in the same: "Death is as natural as Birth " : besides... | |
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