 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 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... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - England - 1884 - 392 pages
...accordance with his theory of life. Friendship to him was an important thing and an elevated thing. " Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections...friendship, he taketh it of the beast and not from humanity " : but friendships are contracted but for the mutual interests of either party. " A principal part... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a frnishing stroke to them at some future period. And...he shone bright, and on the right Went down into boast and not from humanity. It is a strange thing to observe how high a rate great kings and monarchs... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - American essays - 1920 - 492 pages
...neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want9 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness;...fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kind do cause and induce. We know diseases... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 582 pages
...most part, which is in less neighborhoods. Rut we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends,...friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from Immunity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 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,...of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature 1 Aristotle, the Greek philosopher. 5 and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast... | |
 | Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - Friendship - 1925 - 188 pages
...But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere 9 and miserable solitude to want 10 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...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... | |
 | Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 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,...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... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 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,...principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of 1 The text is that of the third edition of the Essays, considerably modernized. the fullness and swellings... | |
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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,... 
