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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, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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 «s but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 5

James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...but that he can flnd a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths." — Bulwer Lytton . "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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...part, which ia in loss neighbourhoods ; bat we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable 'solitude to want true friends,...fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases...
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Masterpieces of English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...part, which is in less neighborhoods. But we 20 may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere* and miserable solitude to want true friends,...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 25 3. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...we are capable of, must tie the holy knot, and rivet the friendship between us. ATTERHURY. It is a , he produces the following instance : " * after scene also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a salms, half a minute after the rest of the congregation have done with it; sometimes, takethit of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge...
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Englische Studien, Volume 4

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...unterschied zwischen from und of im wesentlichen beachtet finde. Wenn Bacon (Essays 27.) schreibt: Whosoever, in the frame of his nature and affections,...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity, so wird er die präposition nicht ohne grund gewechselt haben. Zu vergleichen sind auch Hume l, 254...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But w» may go further, and affirm most truly, t at it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is •5 but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature...
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On the Threshold

Theodore Thornton Munger - Conduct of life - 1881 - 248 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...
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The Treasury of David: Containing an Original Exposition of the ..., Volume 4

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Bible - 1882 - 496 pages
...part, which is in less neighbourhoods ; but we may go further, and affiim most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.— F¡'ancis Bacon. Verse 7. — '.'Alone.'' See the reason why people in trouble love solitariness. They...
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