 | Lyman Beecher - 1853 - 480 pages
...cannot. I select a few from known and classical authors : LOED BACON. — A man's person hath many relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his wife but as a husband ; to his son, but as a father ; to his enemy, but upon terms. — p. 186. Dr.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 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 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,... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1855 - 360 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...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. When once our labor has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...show you his estate. — Shakespere. 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 - 1856 - 406 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,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 364 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;...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. When once our labor has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end:... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1856 - 188 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...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. EXEnCISK TO I!E WRITTEN. Insert both the semicolon and the colon wherever required in these sentences... | |
 | John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1856 - 360 pages
...there which a man carfnot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. When once our labor has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 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...mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, ' ivleo ulfatum immniurum nix ottil; atque habeat quit (nt loquamur mart tribttlia* out Jirmariorum)... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...show you his estate.' — Shakespere. 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 stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's... | |
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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. 
