 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. ATTKRBURY. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...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.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable...solitude to want true friends, without which the world is as but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pages
...gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. But we may go further, aiul affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable...nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he takcth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere 5 and miserable solitude to want 6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness;...and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh 7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere5 and miserable solitude to want6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable...solitude to want true friends, without which the world is «s but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...is not ttiat fellowship, for the most part, which ia in loss neighbourhoods ; bat we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable...fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Hagna civitas, magna solitudo," — because in a great town...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,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we 20 may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere* and miserable...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 25 3. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...degree as we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. ATTERHURY. his kind, he produces the following instance : " * after scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
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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,... 
