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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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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - Authors, English - 1887 - 572 pages
...lees neighbourhoods. But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable use it is not got by rules; and those who excel in either of the wilderness. And even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and aifections...
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Francis Bacon (Lord Verulam): A Critical Review of His Life and Character ...

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - Authors, English - 1888 - 306 pages
...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 even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...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 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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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...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...
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Friendship

Friendship - 1890 - 124 pages
...great solitude. hoods. 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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A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations, Ancient and Modern: With ...

Quotations - 1890 - 270 pages
...in less neighborhoods ; 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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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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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“The” Pleasures of Life

Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 228 pages
...he elsewhere says, " 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." Not only, he adds, does friendship introduce " daylight in the understanding out of darkness...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1891 - 466 pages
...in less neighborhoods: 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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Francis Bacon and His Secret Society: An Attempt to Collect and Unite the ...

Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...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, in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he...
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