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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... "
The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion - Page 332
1801
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere 2 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...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is as but a wilderness. And, even in this sense also of...humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and dis3o charge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...most truly that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friends, without which the world n appetites: in proportion as their love to takcth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 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 and affections is unfit for friendship, he takelh it of the beast, and not from humanity. LORD BACON: Essay XXVIII., Of Friendship. A principal...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 of...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...
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The essays, i-(lviii) or, Counsels civil and moral of Francis lord ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere 5 and miserable solitude to want 6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of...and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh 7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge...
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Macmillan's Reading Books

Readers - 1878 - 446 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 of...nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he takcth it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge...
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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
...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...humanity. A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and dis30 charge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know...
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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...most truly, that it is a mere5 and miserable solitude to want6 true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness ; and even in this sense also...nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh7 it of the beast, and not from humanity. A principal fruit of Friendship is the ease and discharge...
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Chambers's Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 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...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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