 It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates, and masters, the fear of death : and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants, about him, that can win the combat of him....  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life - الصفحة 154بواسطة James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...competent a person as any of Sir George Grey's present advisers ; hear what he says on the matter — ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death ;' and if this be so — if the weakest passion is stronger than the dread of death, how can it be supposed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupieth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew Death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over Death ; Love slights it ; Honour aspireth to it ; Grief flyeth to it; Fear pre-occupateth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew Death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of roan so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of Death : and therefore Death is no such terrible... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenger triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspiretb to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many atteudants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenue triumphs over death ; love slights it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is n« passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupieth... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...discoloured face, and friends weeping, and blacks and obsequies, and the like, shew death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion...attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge trinmphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre-occupieth... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...fear to go in the dark " ; and yet it is so far from being universally true, as Lord Bacon remarks, " that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it sometimes mates and masters the fear of death." Mori vcllc, non tantum fortis, aut miser, sed etiam... | |
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