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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... "
Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ... - Page 159
by Francis Bacon - 1720 - 448 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 129

Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. . . . We may affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness. Going on to explain the offices of friendship — A principal fruit of friendship is the...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...less neighbourhoods: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere 2 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...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable n to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appeti wilderness : and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...less neighbourhoods. 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. And even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...
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Macmillan's Reading Books

Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...where there is no love. But we may go further, aiul affirm most truly, that it is a 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,...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. ATTERHURY. 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...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...less neighborhoods. But we 20 may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a 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...
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...less neighbourhoods: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere 2 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...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...less neighbourhoods. But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable e after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometime wilderness. And even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...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 but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...
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