 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...beyond humanity. '—Philip Sidney. miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness : and even in this sense also...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. [4] A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 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...principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of 1 Aristotle, Elh., B. 8. ' Aversution towards. Aversion to. 'There is such a general aversation in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever...the Frame of his Nature and Affections, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall Fruit of Frendship, is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...meere, and miserable Solitude, to want true Frends; without which the World, is but a Wildernesse : And even in this sense also of Solitude, whosoever in the Frame of his Nature and Affecflions, is unfit for Frendship, he taketh it of the Beast, and not from Humanity. A principall... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. . . . This communicating of a man's self to his friend, works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness : and even in this sense also...friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 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...principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of 1 Aristotle, Eth., B. 8. * Aversation towards. Aversion to. 'There is snch a general aversation in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere1 5 and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and, even in this sense also...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. 16 A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1874 - 676 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also...he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. — Francis Bacon. Verse 7. — " Alone." See the reason why people in trouble love solitariness. They... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world mbers and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings... | |
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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 ; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is... 
