 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Friendship.] It bad been hard for him that spake it, to have put more...untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' NVhosoever is delighted in solitude, Is either a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most true, that... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...bcen hard for him tliat spake it, to hâve put more truth and untruth togelher in few words , than ia, that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most truc, tbat a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards socie-r ty, in any man, hath somewhat of... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...togethei in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solituJe is either a wild betst 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...certainly you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd, than over formal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...god." For it is most true, that a natural and secret haired, and aversation towards society, in any men, hath somewhat of the savage beast : but it is most... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. [Fi'iendthip.] greatness is a ripening, nips his root, And then...that swim on bladders, These many summers in a se cither a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. •**• XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put...truth and untruth together in few words than in that snoech. " Whosoever ie delisrhtod in V..LI--J eolitude, is either a wild beast or a god :" for it is... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...that he was never less alone than when alone, nor less at leisure than when at leisure." — Cicero. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...somewhat absurd than over formal. XXVJI. OF FRIENDSHIP1. 4 . It had been hard for him* that spake5 it to have put more truth and untruth together in...is delighted in solitude, is either a wild be,ast of a god. " For it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversatjon* towards society,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth, best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most true, that a... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. FRIENDSHIP. It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whoever is delighted in solitude, it either a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most true, that a... | |
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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... 
