| Abel Boyer - Characters and characteristics - 1702 - 404 pages
...forget to Live. Moft Men fpend the firft part of their Lives in rendring the other miferable. •* Men fear Death, as Children fear to go in the Dark ; and as that natural Fear is encreafed in Children with Talcs , fo is the other. Certainly the Stoickr beftowed too much coft... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1720 - 528 pages
...; it being foretold, that Chrift at his Second Coming fhall not find Faith upon Earth. U, Of DEATH. MEN fear DEATH, as Children fear to go in the Dark....as that natural Fear in Children is increafed with frightful Tales, fo is the other alfo. Certainly, the Meditation of DEATH, as DEATH is the Wages of... | |
| Periodicals - 1781 - 364 pages
...childhlainr ? ANTIQJJARIUS. N° 87. N°8y. TUEsDAY, March 7. 17^0. Men fear death as children fear fa go in the dark ; and, as that natural fear in children is increafed -with tales, fo is the other. BACoN. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of fuperftition, which, in all nations,... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...Of death and judgment, houv'u and hell, Who oft doth think; must needs die well. SIR WALTER RAI.EOK: 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...: it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find " faith upon earth." OF DEATH. 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...men ; it being foretold, that when Christ coraeth, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." IVJ.EN 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,"... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...foretold, that when Christ cometh, " he shall not find faith upon the earth." ©f «Dr atl). JVlEN 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,"... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...: 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 as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 734 pages
...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 ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. BACON. THERE is in the mind of man a fund of superstition, which,... | |
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