 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death: but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy: " Extinctus amabitur... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death : but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy ; " Extinctus amabitur... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...hurt ; and therefore a mind fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death : but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is,...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. — Extinctus... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death : but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Extinctus amabitur... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy: " Extinctus amabitur... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...THIS VOLUME. " A mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is " good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above " all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...Nunc " dimittis,' when a man hath obtained worthy end." and expectations." * Harleian, vol. ii. p. 196. THE TABLE. Essm. PAGE 1. Truth 2. Death - - -... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...transact. ^ " Who counts it Nature's privilege to die."—DHYDEN. good, doth avert the dolours of death : but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is,...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguishetl! envy : f " Extiuctus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death : but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle...a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy : " Extinctus amabitur... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...j and therefore a mind fixt and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death : , Death hath this also ; that it opcneth the gate to good fame, and cxtinguisheth envy. — " Extinctus... | |
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... 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 and bent upon somewhat that is good,... 
