 How many things 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 ; and a number of the like. But...  The British Prose Writers - Page 961821Full view - About this book
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...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...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. 1800 Bacon: Essays. Of Frirmlship. In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 510 pages
...clnl If u maii have a ti the care of :r| man hatt body,! ^30 shit - maim 2 -:>••-* , -5'Ieir. 1- .mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again,...wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : 240 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. But to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 pages
...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...mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, 1 i"/eo nt fatum immnturum fix obsit: afq'ic habtat qui* (tit tnynnrnnr more triliulnm wtt Jirmariorum)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...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, wTiicn are blushing in a man's own? " So affllll, a iilUll'ii p'erson_ h.Tth__rna.ny proper 1 relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...proper to our age To lack discretion.' To cast beyond ourselves in our Hamlet, act ii. sc. .. opinions mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person r hath many proper relations " which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 460 pages
...ferimus propriorum : contrasted with communia maledicia, ie abuse at large, in the next clause. Conf. 'A man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off.' Essay 27, p. 193, and Horace, ' Difficile est proprie communia dicere.' De Arte Poet. 128. h from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1892 - 402 pages
...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...wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : 240 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. But to... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man can not sometimes brook to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1894 - 686 pages
...merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to suppli- 220 cate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful...as a father ; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy,.but upon terms: as whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them. . . . But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own." To give appropriate expression, in unblushing words, to his lofty appreciation of his own work, in... | |
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