...Cunning' Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. 703 Essays 'Of Death' party; Then all were for the state; The the great...poor man loved the great; Then lands were fairly 704 Essays 'Of Death' There is no passlon in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the...

...Since they are sure to excite so little thanks, in truth they would be better off keeping silent 26 ["Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as natural fear in children is increased with tales, so in the other." Spedding, 6:379.] M. Lasalle adds:...

...it being foretold,* that when Christ cometh, 'he shall not find faith upon the earth'. 2. OF DEATH Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark;*...increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation2 of death, as the wages of sin* and passage to another world, is holy and religious;...

...stick to platoon-leading: he knew his job and didn't need amateur help. Men fear death as children do the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. - Francis Bacon (1561-1625). "I'm no psychologist." I told the major, "but I damn well have been scared...

...feeds on men, And Death once dead, there's no more dying then. William Shakespeare, Sonnet, 146 12 Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark;...children is increased with tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon, Essays, 'Of Death' (1625) u Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in...

...25(c);~,25(u) Of Death. II. Men feare Death, as Children feare to goe in the darke: And as that Natural Feare in Children, is increased with Tales, so is the other. Certainly, the Contemplation of Death, as the 5 wages of sinne, and Passage to another world, is Holy, and Religious; But the Feare of it, as a Tribute...

...justice (Essay 33). Of Denth is a good example of how Bacon handles a vast subject in an accessible way: Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark: and. as that natural fear in children is incteased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the conremplation of death, as the wages of sin,...

...prose in a similar fashion). Take Francis Bacon's fine meditation on mortality in his essay 'Of Death': Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in ili i children is increased with tales so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of I iiii death,...

...craignent la mort, come les enfants craignent les tenebres'; cf. also Francis Bacon Essays 2, 'On Death', 'Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark,...children is increased with tales, so is the other', and on the children's fear Locke Essay 2. 23. 10, 'The ideas of goblins and sprites have really no...

...Bacon, in his Of Death (16251, expressed this with his usual clarity: Men fear death as children tear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Bacon may have been thinking of the so-designated 'men of God' who over the centuries had driven people...