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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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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 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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... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons ...

International Sunday School Lessons - 1875 - 228 pages
...witness and avenger, if we keep not the covenant we have made of perpetual friend•hip. Bp. Patrick. — 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. "We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...their own appetites: in proportion as their love to takcth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. ATTKRBURY. 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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Littell's Living Age, Volume 129

Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...and talk but a 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 case and discharge...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 119

England - 1876 - 806 pages
...лvithout which the world is but a wilderness." Going on to explain the offices of friendship, — " 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. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...most 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 as but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature...
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Macmillan's Reading Books

Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...tinkling cymbal, 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,...nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he takcth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere 5 and miserable solitude to want 6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness;...and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh 7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...: but we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere5 and miserable solitude to want6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge...
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