| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius,...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...heathens — as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and ApoUonius, of Tyana ; and truly, and really, in divers of the...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...conversation, such as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana, and truly and...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no loce. — Bacon's Essays. To ait on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...feignedly, in fome of the Heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedodes the Scicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ; and truly and really, in...no Love. The Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town, Friends are fcattered ; fo that there is... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides, he Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius...extendeth ; for a crowd is not company, and faces ire but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Koman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana ;...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends are scattered ; so that there is not... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonins of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " Magna civitas, magna solitudoj" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides,1 the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian ; and Apollonius,...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : " Magna civitas, magna solitudo: " 2 because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...as Epimenides, the Candian ; Ninna, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyaua; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient hermits...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magua civitas, magna solitudo,'5 — because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there... | |
| Margaret Agnes Paull - 1856 - 324 pages
...most likely have found some excuse for putting me off.' But that was indifferent comfort. CHAPTER XX. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. LORD BACON. MES. MOWBRAY was in a flutter of eager expectation until the day arrived for their journey... | |
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