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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. "
The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ... - Page 23
1881 - 536 pages
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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...of the Heathen, as Epinienides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and ApoUonius of Tyana -, and truly and really in divers of the...Talk but a Tinkling Cymbal , where there is no Love. TheLatine Adage meeteth with it a little, Magna Civitas, magnafolitiido; becaufeina great Town Friends...
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Solitude. Or the Effect of Occasional Retirement on the Mind, the ..., Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799 - 390 pages
...heathens ; as Epimenides, the Arcadian ; Numa, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and dppellomus, of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...extendeth ! for a crowd is not company ; and faces are but gallery pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth...
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 14

1801 - 446 pages
...falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Ro-, man, Enlpedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and truly and...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little ; " magna civitas, magna solitude ;" because in a great town friendi are scattered, so that there is...
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Solitude, Volume 2

Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1805 - 394 pages
...heathens ; as Epimcnides, the Arcadian ; tfuma, the Roman; LmpcdocUs, the Sicilian; and Appollanius, of Tyana ; and truly and really in divers of the ancient...extendeth : for a crowd is not company ; and faces ale but gallery pictures ; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage...
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Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political

Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pages
...been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens; as Epimenides, the Candian ; Numa, the Romau ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius, of Tyana;...pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is uo love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; " magna civitas, magna solitudo;" because in a great...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...terms ; whereas, a. friend may speak as the case requires, and not as itsortethwith the person. IBID. BUT little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna ctvitat, magna solitude ; because, in a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...as 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 ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there...
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The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ...

Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...such 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...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is...
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The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen, as Epimenides the Candian, N lima the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius...no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, "A great city is a great solitude ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is...
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...such as is found to have been falsly and feignedly in some of the heathen ; 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; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not...
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