 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...as Epimenides, the Candian; Numa, the Koman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apolloniua, of Tyana ; 9 and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The-Latin adage meeteth with it a little: Magna civitas, magna solitudo; 1 because in a great town... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...is found to have It> been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathens, as Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Roman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius...fathers of the Church. But little do men perceive what 15 solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...as is found to have been falsely and feignedly in some of the heathen; as Epimenides,b the Candian ; Numa, the Roman ; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius...Latin adage meeteth with it a little, " Magna civitas, magna solitudo ;"c because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1882 - 496 pages
...certainly is it to be found flitting in them. — '.'.The Biblical Treasury.'' Verse 7. — '.'.Alone.'' But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how...cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth it a little : " magna civitas, magno solitvdе ;" because in a great town friends are scattered, so... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...Epimenides the Candian, Numa the Eoman, Empedocles the Sicilian, and Apollonius of Tyana; and tiuly aud really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers...and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk luit a tinkling cymbal where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little; ' mngim civitus,... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...Society is as ancient as the world. </. VOLTAIKE — A Philosophical Dictionary. . Policy. SOLITUDE. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. Л. BACON— Essays. Of Friendship. Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...Douglas." J Aversation, ie aversion. feignedly in some of the heathen ; as Epimenides, the Candian; Numa, the Roman; Empedocles, the Sicilian; and Apollonius...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 - 1883 - 236 pages
...which Candia is the modern name), is said by Pliny to have fallen into a sleep which lasted 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,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pages
...LIVING THOUGHTS OF GREAT THINKERS. Thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep. (Long/Mow. SOLITUDE. Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far...talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. (Baton, He enter'd in his house — his home no more, For without hearts there is no home ; — and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...state is a great solitude.) But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it ertendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery...Latin adage meeteth with it a little : magna civitas, magna solitudo. (Ess. Of Friendship.) The poor deer .... left and abandoned of his velvet friends ;... | |
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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. 
