 | Thomas Moore - 1816 - 220 էջ
...a social and reasonable being, should enter into gome particular fellowship or friendship, and that whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for this, he takes it of the beast, and not of humanity. But the truth is, that friendships such as Gray... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 էջ
...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, without...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,... | |
 | 1821 - 416 էջ
...neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitnde to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this scene also of solitnde, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 էջ
...go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friend«, without which the world is but a wilderness. And even...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he takelh it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the разе and... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1831 - 492 էջ
...are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness." "Whosoever," observes the same writer, " in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 էջ
...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, without...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,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 492 էջ
...space of happy intercourse, there were abundant opportunities, of what Lord Bacon beautifully calls ' the ease and discharge, of the fulness and swellings of the heart. ' . . ' No receipt,' he proceeds to say, ' openeth the heart, but a true friend ; to whom you may impart,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1833 - 458 էջ
...space of happy intercourse, there were abundant opportunities, of what lord Bacon beautifully calls ' the ease and discharge, of the fulness and swellings of the heart.' . . * No receipt,' he proceeds to say, ' openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart,... | |
 | Twenty essays - 1838 - 212 էջ
...faith in God, and the meek and cheerful submission of Jonathan to the divine will. Lord Bacon says, ' 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.' Such consolation had David, when, in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 էջ
...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, without...which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this seиge also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and aflections is unlit for friendship,... | |
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Magna civitas, 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 neighborhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude... 
