 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pàgines
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever...the Frame of his Nature and Affections, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall Fruit of Frendship, is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pàgines
...which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere" and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...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 - 1868 - 472 pàgines
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World, is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever in the Frame of his Nature and Affecflions, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pàgines
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...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 - 1873 - 266 pàgines
...reflection. 2. Of the fruits and the manifold uses of Friendship, Bacon specifies the following: — i. The ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds occasion: true friends being participes curarum, who double each other's joys, and halve each other's... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pàgines
...cymbal, where there is no love. . . . But we may go farther, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness." Who, on reading this, will not call to mind those beautiful lines of Byron, " To sit on rocks, to muse... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 676 pàgines
...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...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. — Francis Bacon. Verse 7. — " Alone." See the reason why people in trouble love solitariness. They... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pàgines
...which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere1 5 and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 16 A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pàgines
...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...principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of 1 Aristotle, Eth., B. 8. * Aversation towards. Aversion to. 'There is snch a general aversation in... | |
 | 1875 - 228 pàgines
...witness and avenger, if we keep not the covenant we have made of perpetual friend•hip. Bp. Patrick. — A principal fruit of 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... | |
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Magna civitas, magna solitudo ; " because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude... 
