 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, aud a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing... | |
 | Classical philology - 1824 - 456 pages
...man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him ; so that a man hath, as it were, two lives in...man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...there, which a man cannot, with any face of comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...again, a man's person hath many proper relations, wnich he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband;... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a busband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg. Bacon, A man shall see facet, which, if you examine them part by p»rt, you shall never find good ;... | |
 | University of Cambridge - Classical education - 1830 - 636 pages
...aman have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him ; so that a man hath, as it were, two lives in...person hath many proper relations which he cannot put oil'. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a nvmber of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 274 pages
...are there which a man cannot with ' any face or comeliness say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...person hath many proper relations which he cannot put oft'. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but... | |
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A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. 
