 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...somewhat absurd than over-formal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. IT had been hard for him that spake it to hav< put more truth and untruth together in few words than...hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most unrue, that it should have any character at all of he divine nature, except it proceed, not out of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Bufmefs, a Man fomewhat abfurd, than over formal. xxvii. Of Friendfhip. T had been hard for him that fpake it, to have put more Truth and Untruth together, in few Words, than in that Speech, Whomever is delighted in folitude, is either a wild Beaft, or a God. For it is moft true, that a natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...truth and untruth together in few words, than in that 2 In, Pis. 6. 3 I cannot find this expression in Aulus Gellius. Quiutilian (x. 1.) says of Seneca :... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...crushed : for prosperity dotli best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue, [Friendship,] It had been hard for him that spake it, to have put...more truth and untruth together in few words, than 'n that speech, * Whosoever is delighted in solitude, s either a wild beast or a god ;' for it is most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...certainly yon were better take for business a man somewhat absurd, than over formal. XXVII. OF FRIENDSHIP. : whereas it useth to have it but on one side. The... ( [eh g̸ G yp CW 9? ?y ͟} { 7n N men, hath somewhat of the savage beast : but it is most untrue, that it should have any character at... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...that he was never less alone than when alone, uor less at leisure than when at leisure." — Cicero. " 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...friends is a fit go shares in one's fortune with another.' reward offaithlessness.' ANNOTATIONS. ' It had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and uutruth together in few words than in that speech, — ' Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...of friends is a fit go shares in one's fortune with another.' reward of faithlessness,' 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Bufinefs a Man fomewhat abfurd, than over formal. xxvii. Of Friendfhip. T had been hard for him that fpake it to have put more Truth and Untruth together in few Words, than in that Speech, IVhofoever is delighted infolitude, is either a wild Beaji, or a God.i For it is moft true, that a... | |
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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... 
