 | 1801 - 446 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want tru* friends, without which the vCorld is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also...friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; "...which the world is but a wilderness; and, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna ctvitat, magna solitude ; because, in a great town, friends are scattered, so...without which, the world is but a wilderness ; and e.veu in this sense also, of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in lessneighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that...friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is u tuere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...Numa, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and really in clivers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church....which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene also of solitnde, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1822 - 238 pages
...and feignedly in some of the heathens ; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Eoapedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and...which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so...which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friend«, without which the world is but a wilderness. And even...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he takelh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the разе and... | |
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Latin adage meeteth with it a little: "magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly,... 
