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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 Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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,...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. .JA principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart,...
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Essays, moral, economical, and political

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods: but we may go further, mid ailirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature aud affections is unfit for friendship; he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal...
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Studies in English and American Literature, from Chaucer to the Present Time ...

Albert Newton Raub - American literature - 1882 - 480 pages
...and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserahle solitude to want true friends, without which 2S the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he takcth it of the beast, and not of humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and dis- 30...
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Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and Character

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...which is in less neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a meref and miserable solitude to want true friends, without...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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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed. and arranged by H. Morley

Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhood». But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it n » mere and miserable solitude, to want true friends,...which the world is but a wilderness : and even in thi» «en«1 also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature aal affections is unfit for friendship,...
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Self-effort; or, The true method of attaining success in life

Joseph Johnson - Success - 1883 - 426 pages
...friend, with sympathetic solacement, divides our cares and carries half our burdens. Lord Bacon said : " 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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The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...1169. Cause of Society, acquaintance, familiarity in friends. (Compare Essay Of Friendship, ' Whosoever is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast and not of humanity,' Ac., with Tim. Ath. i. 1, ' He's opposite to humanity,' <fec.) A natural hatred and aversion...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 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,...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs do set upon this fruit of...
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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,...affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beasts, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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,...affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beasts, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness...
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