 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...speak as the case requires, and not as itsortethwith the person. IBID. BUT little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth, for a crowd...love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna ctvitat, magna solitude ; because, in a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd...;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in lessneighbourhoods : but we may... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 260 pages
...with friends." PH^EDRDS, 1. iii. 9. These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble ; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." NoTEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1816 - 276 pages
...wilh friends." PH.SDRUS, 1. iii. Qi These indeed are all that a wise man would desire to assemble; " for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." NoxEd. P. 72, 1. 16. From every point a ray of genius flows ! By this means, when all nature wears... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth : for a crowd...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth : for a crowd...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd...adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magua solitudo ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...in divers of the ancient hermits, and holy fa*thers of the Church. > But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd...pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is u" love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great... | |
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But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. 
