 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pages
...certainly you were better take for business a man somewhat absurd6 than over-formal. 27. OF FRIENDSHIP It had been hard for him that spake it to have put...wild beast or a god'.* For it is most true that a natural7 and secret hatred and aversation8 towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...Difference] Difference 25 (thirdstate corr.); dif-lference 25(u) [V3] Of Frendship. XXVII. It had beene hard for him that spake it, to have put more Truth and untruth together, in few Words, then in that Speech; 5 Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wilde Beast, or a God. For it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...better0 take for business a man somewhat absurd0 than over-formal. a7. OF FRIENDsHIP IT had been hard0 for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth...delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god'.0 For it is most true that a natural0 and secret hatred and aversation0 towards society in any... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2003 - 390 pages
...perfect illustration of Aristotle's famous dictum, famously quoted in Bacon's essay 'Of Friendship': 'Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god'."2 At least one Elizabethan version of Timon's story makes no bones about deciding the alternative.... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love . . . Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. ~ Francis Bacon, 1561-1626 ~ Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2007 - 157 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...untruth together in few words, than in that speech, Whatsoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. For it is most true that a natural... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - 2008 - 313 pages
...an oft-cited Aristotelian tag, Bacon revises ordinary interpretations of solitude by asserting that 'it had been hard for him that spake it to have put...delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god".'11 Unlike Guazzo, Bacon finds company inadequate to heal 'solitariness.' For, to quote Bacon... | |
| |
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... 
