 ... 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. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, 'Magna civitas, magna solitudo...  The Essays of Francis Bacon - Page 104by Francis Bacon - 1901 - 273 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1801 - 446 pages
...adage meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friendi are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoodsi but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...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 fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " 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 neighbourhoods: but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...adage meeteth with it a little ; " 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 lessneighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; 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 neighbourhoods. But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...Latin adage meeteth with it a little: ';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 neighbourhoods: but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...adage meeteth with it a little : " magna civitas, magna solitndo ;" 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 go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...adage meeteth with it a little: Magna ci — ' vital, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in little neigboiirhoods. . But we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...adage meeteth with it a little : " 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 neighbourhoods : but we may go farther, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable... | |
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