| Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pàgines
...another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. * * * 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 fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pàgines
...fearful. Better, saith he, ' qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae.'7 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps,...is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pàgines
...fearful. Better faith he, £)ui Finem Vitte extremum inter Munera ponit Naturte.9 It is as Natural to Die, as to be Born ; and to a little Infant perhaps,...one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earneft purfuit is like one that is wounded in hot Blood ; who, for the time, fcarce feels the Hurt... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pàgines
...ponat naturœ: [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature.] It is aa natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps,...is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth... | |
| James Martineau - 1858 - 568 pàgines
...soon vanish, and even death be robbed of its terrors ; for, to quote the noble words of Lord Bacon, ' 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 fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pàgines
...saith he, "qui finem vita- extremum inter munera ponat nature." It is as natural to die as to be bom ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest purmiit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and... | |
| American cyclopaedia - 1859 - 790 pàgines
...rise and fall as long аз the least respiration remains. — Lord Bacon says : " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, one is as painful аз the other." The imagination naturally shrouds the great mystery of death with... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 pàgines
...to rise and fall as long as the least respiration remains. — Lord Bacon says : " It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, one is as painful as the other." The imagination naturally shrouds the great mystery of death with... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 pàgines
...appearance. " It is," says that great man to whose death we have just alluded — " it is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other," but it matters much how that death comes. In Hazlitt's beautiful but somewhat cynical image, our mother... | |
| Louis Aimé Martin - 1860 - 412 pàgines
...expiation, but a trial ; no accursed creations, no wrathful and vindictive God, but a * It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other. — Bacon's Essays. f It will be perceived from these arguments, that the author disbelieves the fall... | |
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