 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...esteemed perfect, that abundance is the perverter of reason. Hitepatiesa, It is a mere and miserable olumes that / I prize above my dukedom. Ttmpt&tt i. 2. 10 Knowi wilderness. AWv«. It is a moral impossibility that any son or daughter of Adam can stand on any ground... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 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... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Friendship - 1896 - 90 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... | |
 | John Leverett Moore - 1898 - 88 pages
...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; and whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | Friendship - 1900 - 108 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pages
...less neighborhoods. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 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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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... 
