 It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the 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; and therefore a mind fixed...  The works of Francis Bacon - Side 244av Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 sider
...Stoics bestowed too much cost on 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...time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon something that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But, above all, believe... | |
 | 1909 - 378 sider
...extremum inter munera ponat nature? [who accounts the close of life as one of the benefits of nature]. It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little...one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, » Conquers. 4 Anticipates. • In Plutarch's " Lives." ' Fastidiousness. * Juvenal. scarce feels the... | |
 | Richard Freeborn - 1985 - 320 sider
...world of the revolution. In his famous essay 'On Death' Francis Bacon wrote: 'It is as natural to man to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.' Carl Sagan used this quotation at the head of his chapter on what he called ' the amniotic universe... | |
 | Phoebe S. Spinrad - 1987 - 346 sider
...more divergent religious views even within the Church of England. Bacon, for example, points out that "It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other." 24 Although contemplation of death may be "holy and religious," he says, "the fear of it, as a tribute... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 sider
...been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist We all labour against our own cure, for death... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sider
...death. FRANCIS BACON (1561-1626), English philosopher, cssayisi, statesman. An Essay on Death. • . English author. Letter. 21 Nov. 1984 (published...Letters Between Samuel Bullcr.ind £. M. Л. Savage 1 FRANCIS BACON (1 561 -1 626). English philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, 'Of Death" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 sider
...and trying vainly to encompass a task which called for many hands and brains. Once Bacon had written, "He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that...hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt." Sir Francis might have been speaking of himself; his own death was to come in almost this fashion.... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 sider
...And one by one back in the Closet lays. Omar Khayyam (Edward Fitzgerald, trans.) Persian poet It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. There is death in the pot. Bible: 2 Kings 4: 40 Birth, copulation, and death. That's all the facts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 sider
...preparations made it appear more fearful. Better saith he, quifincm vitae extremum inter munera ponat naturae* It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little...as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit5 is like one that is wounded in hot blood;6 who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 sider
...in 10 of 15 copies) ; not in H51 45 Adeste, . . . agendum. ] no t in 1 2b (H51 )-24 is as painfull, as the other. He that dies in an earnest Pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot Bloud; who, for the time, scarce feeles the Hurt; And therefore, a Minde fixt, and bent upon somewhat... | |
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