 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege cZ Tw3 E n- +F 3 7 ˱ m 0I` , C D 9] 쀷 sometijngs brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like : but all these things arc graceful in a friend'« mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So, again, a man's ]>ereon hath many proper relations which ho cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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...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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much leas extol them ; a man can not sometunes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like,...a man's person hath many proper relations which he can not put off. A man can not speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...himself 1 A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man can not sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. 80, again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he can not put off. A man can not speak... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself1? 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,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 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 essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...are graceful in a Friend's Mouth, which are blufhing in a Man's own. So 141663 again, a Man's perfon hath many proper Relations, which he cannot put off. A Man cannot fpeak to his Son, but as a Father ; to his Wife, but as a Hufband ; to his Enemy, but upon Terms :... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself i A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing io a man's own. So, again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man... | |
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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. 
