 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pàgines
...made it appear more fearful. Better faith he, §biifinent tiits extrimum inter munera pcnut Naturx. It is as natural to die, as to be born , and to a...one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earneft purfuit, is }ike one that Js wounded in hot blood, who for the time fcarcc feels the hurt j... | |
 | Abel Boyer - 1702 - 404 pàgines
...Stoickr beftowed too much coft upon Death, and by their great preparations made it appear more fearful. It is as natural to die as to be born , and to a little...Infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. * It is obfervable, that there is no Paffion in the Mind of Man , but it Matters the Fear of Death... | |
 | John Ferriar - 1798 - 334 pàgines
...in his harangue, " in hot pursuit, the wound itself which brings him is not felt." — Bacon says, He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that...hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt. Among these instances of remarkable deaths, I am surprised that the curious story of Cardinal Bentivoglio... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pàgines
...passage to another world, is holy and religious, but the fear of it, as a tribute due to nature, is weak. It is as natural to die as to be born,* and to a little...infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy. LORD BACON. I HAVE... | |
 | 1862 - 818 pàgines
...the tropical heat of an awful crisis. Nor even at the last is the woman wholly lost in the heroine. " He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death," says Bacon. So the thought of saving her country by her death, fills the young girl's mind, in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pàgines
...who considers Death, or the extreme end of life, among the common circumstances or gifts of nature." It is as natural to die, as to be born ; and to a...for the time scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a * To illustrate this observation. I remember an anecdote of a man committing suicide, and giving as... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pàgines
...Death, or the extreme end of life, among the common circumstances or gifts of nature." It is as nutural to die, as to be born ; and to a little infant perhaps...for the time scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a * To illustrate this observation. I remember an anecdote of a man committing suicide, and giving as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pàgines
...made it appear more fearful. Better saith he, qui jinem 'oit<K extremum inter munera ponit naturce. It is as natural to die, as to be born ; and to a...time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death : but above all, believe it,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...sentence, " Feri, si ex re sit populi Romani," holding forth his neck: Septimus Severus in dispatch, •" Adeste, si quid mihi restat agendum," and the like....wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels 4he hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pàgines
...preparations made it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, 1f " qui n'nem vitas extremum inter munera ponit naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born; and...therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is * Live mindful of our wedlock, my Livia, and farewell. f The bodily strength of Tiberius began now... | |
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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... 
