 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solîhide, R magna solitude;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius...little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extended). For a crowd is not company, and faces are but n gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling... | |
 | 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,...adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitudo,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends are scattered,... | |
 | 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...adage meeteth with it a little : ' Magna civitas, magna solitude,' — [' Great city, great solitude;'] because in a great town friends are scattered,... | |
 | 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; fora crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; "magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great town friends are scattered ; so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | 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...Latin Adage meeteth with it a little ; Magna Civitas, magna Solitudo ; becaufe in a great Town, Friends are fcattered ; fo that there is not that Fellowfhip,... | |
 | 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 ;...Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; magna civitas, magna solitude; because in a great town friends are scattered ; so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonins with former rebels. There be monks in Russia, for...custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, magna solitudoj" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
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But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. 
