 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...be deprived of friends is a Jit go shares in one's fortune with another.' reward of ANNOTATIONS. c It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...delighted in solitude is either a wild beast' or a god? Aristotle had been so unduly and absurdly worshipped before Bacon's time, that it was not inexcusable... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...round the spot. 1 8«e Pravtrbt and Preceptt, as Copy-Pieces for National Schools. XXVH. OF FRLENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words, than in that speech, 'Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...you were better take for Businesse, a Man somewhat Absurd, then over Formall. \ XXVII IT had beene hard for him that spake it, to have put more Truth and untruth together, in few Words, then in that Speech ; Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a viilde Beast, or a God. For it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...you were better take for Businesse, a Man somewhat Absurd, then over Formall. XXVII r ' T had beene hard for him that spake it, to have put more Truth and untruth together, , i ti in few Words, then in that Speech; Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wilde Beast,... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 254 pages
...put more truth and untruth together, in few words, than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted with solitude, is either a wild beast or a god :" for it...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... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - Quotations - 1870 - 256 pages
...gloomy desert, in the very precincts of his own dread abode. REV. JOHN FOSTER'S Diary. IT had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together, in few...words, than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted with solitude, is either a wild beast or a god :" for it is most true that a natural and secret hatred... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...sedition and tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve into anarchy and confusion. 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... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...solitude, whilst the latter may be greatly advanced thereby. Bacon, in his essay " Of Friendship," says : " It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god;" and after bringing together illustrations of his assertion he adds : "But little do men perceive what... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...certainly, you were better take4 for business a man somewhat absurd5 than over formal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.'6 For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...whose wings they thought by their self-wisdom to have pinioned. (27) XIII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been 1 hard for him that spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in few words then in that speech : " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god;"2 for... | |
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IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god... 
