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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 neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude... "
For Friendship's Sake ...: Emerson, Lubbock, Bacon, Etc - Page 50
1900 - 90 pages
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Psalm 79-103

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1885 - 498 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...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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Recollections of My Mother

Susan Inches Lesley - 1886 - 528 pages
...hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatever lieth on the heart to oppress it." He likewise says, "It 221 is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and whoever is in his nature and affections unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...littered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in lees neighbourhoods. is ia apt to be taken for the effect of pure nature,...rules; and those who excel in either of them, never pur And even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and aifections is unfit...
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The Essays Or Councils, Civil & Moral: Of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...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...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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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ...

Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in les& neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable...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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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 pages
...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...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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Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam): A Critical Review of His Life and Character ...

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 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 meref and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Followers and Friends If he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. 1664 Bacon: Essays. Of Friendship It is a mere 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...
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The Pleasures of Life ...

Sir John Lubbock - 1890 - 514 pages
...universal power souls are now acting, enduring, and daring, which can love us, and which we can love." No doubt, much as worthy friends add to the happiness...thoughts ;" it " maketh a fair day in the affections from Htorm and tempests:" in consultation with a friend a man " tosseth his thoughts more easily ; he marshalleth...
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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern: With ...

1890 - 270 pages
...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...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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