 | John Todd - Conduct of life - 1854 - 326 pages
...age. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself," says Cowley ; " it grates upon his o'wn heart to say anything of disparagement, and...reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him." It is especially dangerous to speak of yourself, if your circumstances are such that you are, in any... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...Prasens, absens Dt eles. Tnn. Eua Aet 1. Se. 2. Be present as if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subjeet for a man to speak of himself, (says Cowley :) it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' ' Let the... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 588 pages
...expended in vain. " IT is a hard and nice subject," says Cowley, " for a man to speak of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ear to hear anything of praise from him. Let the tenour of his discourse be what it will upon this... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...drunkenness, or even madness, as the frequent use of parenthesis in conversation. — Sltenstone. CCCCV. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of...himself," says Cowley : " it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...drunkenness, or even madness, as the frequent use of parenthesis in conversation. — Sltemtone. CCCCV. " It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of...himself," says Cowley : " it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him." Let the tenour... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 pages
...FRIDAY, JULY 2. • — Praesens, absens ut sies. TBK. Eun. Act 1. So. 2. Be present as if absent. ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of...himself, (says Cowley :) it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear any thing of praise from him.' ' Let the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...No. 562. FRIDAY, JULY 2. Prascns, abscns ut sles. Tu. Eun. Act 1. 80. S. Bt preseut as If abseut. ' IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of hinueli (says Cowley :) it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the -reader's... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...the poor to fee! 306.-OF MYSELF. CowLpy IT is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself ; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's cars to hear anything of praise for him. There is no danger from me of offending him in this kind ;... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 pages
...careful in his words; and that no man ought to spend money in superfluities, while others were in want. It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself. It grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the hearer's ears to hear any thing of... | |
 | Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - English fiction - 1862 - 260 pages
...had boasted of "implicit confidence !" CHAPTER XX. "!T is a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself," says Cowley. "It grates his own heart...reader's ears, to hear anything of praise from him." And if this be true of a man, how much more of a dog ! Were I to relate the twentieth part of my sympathy... | |
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IT IS a hard and nice subject for a man to write of himself; it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader's ears to hear anything of praise from him. 
