 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 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 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 ease requires,... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 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...in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's ow1,^ •So again, a man's person hath many proper relations wh,ch he cannot put off. A man cannot... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege ! wife, but as a husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! A man can scarce allege hi- own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man...friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own. LORD BACON : Essay XXVIJI., Of Friendship. It is better to decide a difference between our enemies... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...scarce allege his own merits with 250 modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like. But...a man's person hath many proper relations which he 255 cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 his...cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as afather ; to his wife, but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 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 bis Enemy but upon Terms ; whereas a Friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 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 : 80 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1878 - 312 pages
...semi-colons, unless numerous and complex, should be separated by colons ; as, " A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in his own." RULE 2. — Supplementary Clauses. — A supplementary clause, introduced without a conjunction,... | |
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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. 
