 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 neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude...  For Friendship's Sake: Essays on Friendship - Page 501900 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...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, that it is u tuere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...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, that...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... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pages
...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, that it is a mere and miserable solitnde to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in little neigboiirhoods. . But we may 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 in this sense also of solitude, whosoever... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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, that...friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; ; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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, that...friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it ua mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 pages
...company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness." "Whosoever," observes the same writer, " in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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, that...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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, that...friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. And even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit... | |
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