 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 576 pages
...like, shew death terrible. 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;...death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - English essays - 1916 - 540 pages
...like, shew death terrible. 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 enemv when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - Germany - 1917 - 32 pages
...remarks that the fear of death does not much affect mankind. ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it, fear pre-occupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - World War, 1914-1918 - 1918 - 152 pages
...of death does not much affect mankind. ' There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but !16» C it mates and masters the fear of death; and therefore...death ; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it, fear pre-occupateth it; n»y, we read, after Otho the Emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | English essays - 1922 - 570 pages
...like, show death terrible. 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...; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear preoccupateth it ; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pages
...that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death (5); and therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when...death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth (6) it: nay, we read, after Otho the emperor had slain himself, pity,... | |
 | Clarence Marsh Case - Sociology - 1924 - 1026 pages
..." There is no passion in the mind of men so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death. . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour...to it; grief flyeth to it; fear preoccupateth it." Exactly the same kind of considerations apply to marriage. The passion of love seems so overpowering... | |
 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...like, show death terrible. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man of objects, whether of nature or of art, with a nicety...OUt to Iwrnr mountain whieh I observed resembled honor aspireth to it; grief fiieth to it; fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read, after Otho the emperor... | |
 | John Henry Grafton Grattan - English language - 1925 - 354 pages
...called Paratactic. A moderate use of this often produces brevity, clearness, and conciseness. (a) " Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flietb to it ; fear preoccupateth it." BACON, Of Death. (b) " Sculpture corresponds to unperplexed,... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 pages
...the like, show death terrible. 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;...him. Revenge triumphs over death, love slights it, honor aspireth to it, grief flieth to it, fear pre-occupateth it; nay, we read after Otho the emperor... | |
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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. Revenge... 
