| Abel Boyer - Characters and characteristics - 1702 - 406 pages
...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... | |
| James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1792 - 390 pages
...mind move in charity, .rest .in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." Lord Bacon 's efsays. . "It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, who anticipates no evil, perhaps the one is as Jittle painful as the other. " He that dies in an earnest... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, " qui finem vitae extremum inter munera, ponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...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;... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 302 pages
...it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, " qui finem vitae extremum in" ter munera, ponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born : and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is a* painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit- is like one that is wounded in hot blood... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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...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;... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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...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;... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...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...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...it appear more fearful. Better, saith .he, " qui finem vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...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;... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...made it appear more fearful. Better, saith he, " qui finem vitae exlremum inter muneraponat naturae." It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...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... | |
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