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" Magna rivitas, 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,... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 85
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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The World at Westminster, Volume 1

Thomas Moore - Westminster (London, England) - 1816 - 220 pages
...a social and reasonable being, should enter into gome particular fellowship or friendship, and that whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for this, he takes it of the beast, and not of humanity. But the truth is, that friendships such as Gray...
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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 - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...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

British prose literature - 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
...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...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he takelh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the разе and...
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Sermons: Accompanied by Suitable Prayers, Designed to be Used in ..., Volume 1

John Relly Beard - Families - 1831 - 492 pages
...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 - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...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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Lives, characters, and an address to posterity. Ed. by J.Jebb

Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - Great Britain - 1833 - 458 pages
...space of happy intercourse, there were abundant opportunities, of what lord Bacon beautifully calls ' the ease and discharge, of the fulness and swellings of the heart.' . . * No receipt,' he proceeds to say, ' openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart,...
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Lives, Characters, and an Address to Posterity

Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...space of happy intercourse, there were abundant opportunities, of what Lord Bacon beautifully calls ' the ease and discharge, of the fulness and swellings of the heart. ' . . ' No receipt,' he proceeds to say, ' openeth the heart, but a true friend ; to whom you may impart,...
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Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential ...

Twenty essays - Christian life - 1838 - 212 pages
...faith in God, and the meek and cheerful submission of Jonathan to the divine will. Lord Bacon says, ' a principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.' Such consolation had David, when, in...
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