 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that...and extinguished envy: " Extinctus amabitur idem." OF in Beligion. RELIGION being the chief bond of human society, it is a happy thing when itself is... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...natural to die as to be born,* and to a little infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy. LORD BACON. I HAVE often thought upon death, and I fmd it the least of all evils. All that which is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc " dimittis," when 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 idem." OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief band... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...canticle is, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. - When dead, he shall be equally beloved. JLtuity in JtvELIGION being the chief... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...canticle is, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath -this also ; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. When dead, he shall be equally beloved. tOf 5 Initp in Itdigton. RELIGION being... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that...openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished envy : " Exstinctus amabitur idem*" III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief bond of human society,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...but above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nune dimittis ; when 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 idem. III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, "Nunc liimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguished " Exstinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief bond of human society,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy : " Exstinctus amabitur idem." III. OF UNITY IN RELIGION. RELIGION being the chief... | |
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Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame and extinguisheth envy. 
