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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... "
Friendship - Page 58
1890 - 104 pages
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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 to want friends, without which the world is but a wilderness : and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever...
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Essays moral, economical and political

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,...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...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...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,...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 pages
...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 also of solitnde, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...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...
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Sermons: Accompanied by Suitable Prayers, Designed to be Used in ..., Volume 1

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,...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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...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,...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...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...which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this seиge also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and aflections is unlit for friendship,...
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Selections from Jeremy Taylor [and others] designed to assist in forming the ...

Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...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 to want friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and amnn lly thoughts so busy kerp. When such music sweet Their hearts and cars степ in this scene also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit...
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