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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... "
The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 98
by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...spake it, to have put more truth and untruth together in few words, than in that speech, ' Whoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or...is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society, in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; bu1 it is most untrue, that...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...new duti 'Animi imbecilli est, pal ' It is the mark of a J go shares in one's fortune ANNOTATIONS. ' It had been hard for him that spake it to have put and' untruth together in few words than in that ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wi...
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The Guardian, Volumes 10-11

Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 pages
...fervor. It were hard lo put more truth and untruth together, in few words, thau in the remark — that "Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god." For it is true, that a natural and secret aversion in any man towards society, has something of the savage beast,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1860 - 480 pages
...certainly you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal.4 XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put...more truth and untruth together in few words, than in 1 rtmpralfrrehtmiw. 1 dtcoctor Ttifamiliarit occulhu. * Certt hcminci hoc prvdtntia praditi apimantm...
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The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1861 - 408 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVIL— 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 : 4 for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man hath...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...friends is a fit go shares in one's fortune with another.' reward of faithlessness.' ANNOTATIONS. 1 ft had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in tJ,at speech, — ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is cither a wild beast or a god.'' Aristotle...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...friends is a fit go sharei in one's fortune with another.' riward of failhleeeneee.' ANNOTATIONS. ' 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...
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Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...certainly you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal.4 XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put...more truth and untruth together in few words, than in 1 rem prcetervehuntur. 3 decoctor reifamiliaris occultus. 8 Certe homines hac pmdentia praditi opinianem...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...either for the perfecting their reading or principhng their religion."— Locke, on Education. 3. " It had been hard for him that spake It to have put...delighted in solitude Is either a wild beast or a god."— Bacon, Essay on Friendship. The sentiment is found in Aristotle's Politics, and Burke is a little inaccurate...
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Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His ...

Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...business? Point oat words or phrases, now obsolete, or changed in meaning. ESSAY XIV. FRIENDSHIP. [1] IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...more truth and untruth together in few words, than [!.] Whosoever, #c. : Aristotle had been so unduly and absurdly worshipped before Bacon's time, that...
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