 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 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,...the world is but a wilderness ; and, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever, in the frame of bis nature and affections, is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 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,...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...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 unlit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship... | |
 | William Lovett - Conduct of life - 1853 - 496 pages
...ensphering love into form and expression, is the office of friendship. Bacon goes so far as to say that " a principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness of the heart." He goes on in his noble and wise way to name its other points, and nothing... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1856 - 590 pages
...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...fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...most part, which is in less neighborhoods : but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for 1 Epimenides, a poet of Crete, (of which Candia is the modern name,) is said by rliny to have fallen... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere6 and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...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,... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 654 pages
...most part, whichiis in less neighbourhoods; but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods; but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere6 and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...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,... | |
 | 1857 - 584 pages
...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 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; nnd, even in this scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is... | |
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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,... 
