| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...the spot. 1 See Proverbs and Preeepts, as Copy-Pieces for National School* XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. TT 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...employment : for, certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVII IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any 5 man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...certainly, you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. 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" :7 for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards 8 society in any man... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...; it being foretold that when Christ cometh He shall not find faith upon the earth. Of Frittuhhip. ceived it likewise, but I would not believe it. At...•said plainly, that he loved ; and I startled as for boast or a god." * For it is most true that a natural and sucret hatred and aversation towards society... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 966 pages
...not lie on the surface, at any rate, in his treatment of other relations. Take his commentary on the speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god ; " he exclaims — But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a crowd... | |
| England - 1876 - 806 pages
...not lie on the surface, at any rate, in his treatment of other relations. Take his commentary on the speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god ; " he exclaims — "But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth ; for a... | |
| Readers - 1878 - 446 pages
...Essays ; which join to wisdom anrl a chaste eloquence the rich fancy of the Eenaissance. 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... | |
| Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...out languescit nut tumescit,' &c. Burton, Anat. Mel., Part I, Sect. 3, Mem. 2, Subs. 7. • Whoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.' Quoted by Bacon, Essay of Friendship. J. 15. dispositions that are lovely. St. Paul, Phil. iv. 8. 1.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...employment : for, certainly, you were better cake for business a man somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVII IT had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...secret hatred and aversation towards society, in any 3 man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue, that it should have any character... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...for they are worse servants than downright fools. XXVIL— OF FRIENDSHIP. (1612, re-written 1625.) IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words that in that speech, ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god;'1 for it... | |
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