| 1801 - 446 pages
...doubting but that they will prove very acceptable. It ha'd been hard for him that speak it, to have more truth and untruth together in few words, than...is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue, that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...SO'LITVPE. ni [solitude, Fr. solitude, Latin.] X. Lonely life ; state of being alone. It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together, in few...words, than in that speech, Whosoever is delighted with solitudt, is cither a wild beast or a god. Bacon. What call'st thou solitude .' Is not the earth... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...employment; for, certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. OF IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...words, than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted m solitude, is either a wild beast or a god ;" for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it, tohave put more truth and untruth together in lew words than in that speech, " Whosoever " is delighted...towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beat ; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVIII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast; but it is most untrue, that... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVIII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...words, than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitnde, is either a wild beast or a god :" for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than overformal. XXVIII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue, that... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...and gently drew his beard «ide, and said: „This hath not ofleaded the king." 3) OF FRIENDSHIP.**) •It had been hard for him that spake **•) it to have put more troth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech : Whosoever is delighted in solitude,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than overformal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in soli" tude, is either a wild beast or a god:" for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than overformal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. U It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in soli" tude, is either a wild beast or a god :" for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred... | |
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