 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 σελίδες
...: it being foretold, that when Christ cometh he shall not Jind faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 σελίδες
...cometh he shall not Jind faith upon the earth. II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death, as children fear to go iry the dark : and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 σελίδες
...cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." II. OF DEATH. MEN fear Death as children fear to go into the dark; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | 1821 - 416 σελίδες
...cometh," he shall not " find faith upon earth." II. OF DEATH. MEN fear death as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 σελίδες
...correctly anticipated. Certainly it is a general truth, as safe to reason from as any other, that " men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark " ; and yet it is so far from being universally true, as Lord Bacon remarks, " that there is no passion in... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 340 σελίδες
...answer equally well in the case of chilblains ? lam, &c. ANTIQCARIUS.' N° 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark;...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 734 σελίδες
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? " I am, &c. " ANTIQUARIUS." No. 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | 1823 - 344 σελίδες
...equally well in the case of chilblains ? " I am, &c. " ANTIQUARIUS." No. 87. TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1780. fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which, in all nations, in all ages, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 σελίδες
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 σελίδες
...shall not " find " faith upon the earth." II. OF DEATH.* Men fear death, as children fear to go in to the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition.... | |
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MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the... 
