 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...entitled 'Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity -and of superstition.^ You shall read in some of the friars' books of MortincationTthat a man should think... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...of death as the wages of sin and passage to another wgrld, is holy and religious; but the fear of it as a tribute due unto nature is weak. Yet in religious... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...entitled ' Of Death,' had appeared in the edition of 1612. We will give the greater part of it : — Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark ; and...natural fear in children is increased with tales, s0 is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death as the wages of sin and passage to another world,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...contemplation of death as the wages i* sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; tra! the fear of it as a tribute due unto nature is weak. Vet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read... | |
 | Robert Mushet - Ethics, Ancient - 1847 - 524 pages
...belief and reliance on these sources of hope. " The contemplation of death," says a great philosopher, " as the wages of sin, and passage to another world,...fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak." 5. When we believe, or rather if we do believe, that death will be followed by life, — mortality... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...being foretold, that when Christ cometh " he shall not find faith upon the earth." . II. OF DEATH. Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark : and...meditations, there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification, that a man should think... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...shall not " find'iaitli'uponthe earth.' II. OF DEATH.» X MEN fear death, as children fear to go into the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is...and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; bnt the fear of it, as a tribute due unto na* See note A, at the end of Ibe Essays. ч / ture, is... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by dopressii ig another's fortune. DEATH. — Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and...children is increased with tales, so is the other. SIUKSPERE'S BIIITII-DAY,— IN ТПЕ FUTURE. The young spring morn breaks brightly on a scene Of festival... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...even hand, by depressing another's fortune. DEATH. — Men fear death, as children fear to go in tho dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. SHAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY,— IN THE FUTURE. The young spring morn breaks brightly on a scene Of festival... | |
 | Ears - 1851 - 176 pages
...death a passage to a better life: his hand has unlocked the gates of everlasting bliss. — Wasse. MEN fear death, as children fear to go in the dark: and...weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes a mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars' books of mortification,... | |
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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... 
