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The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 132
by Francis Bacon - 1815
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First Year English for High Schools

Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - 220 pages
...complex or compound, and (6) according to use, as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory: How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the...
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The Shakespeare Symphony: An Introduction to the Ethics of the Elizabethan Drama

Harold Bayley - 1906 - 418 pages
...body, and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy ; for he may exercise them by his friend. BACON (Essay : Friendship) 1625. What are friends but one mind in two bodies. KYD (Solyman and Terseda...
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First Year English for High Schools

Emogene Sanford Simons - 1906 - 218 pages
...(&) according to use, as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory: How many things arc there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 412 pages
...body, and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise...his own merits with modesty, much less extol them jla man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 414 pages
...place ; but where friendship is, all offices .of life are as it were granted to him and his deputv. For he may exercise them by his friend. How many things...scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less 'Estate. State or condition. ' * For that. Because. extol them ; xa man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 428 pages
...body, and that body is confined to a place ; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise...cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself 1 A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less 1 Estate. State or condition. 1 For...
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The Essays

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...240 Body, and that Body is confined to a Place; But where Frendship is, all Offices of Life are as it were granted to Him and his Deputy ; For he may exercise them by his Frend. How many Things are there which a Man cannot, with any Face or Comelines, say or doe Himselfe?...
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English Prose (1137-1890)

John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 pages
...body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise...all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, wnich are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it t thou deservest to be hangeil in a hair-halter, it...Numerator OK by lessening your Denominator. Kay, soinc'times brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful...
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Poetry Review, Volume 6

Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1915 - 652 pages
...ourselves, we publish them." In the Essay of Friendship Bacon, like Shakespeare, condemns selfpraise : " A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them." Sonnet sixty-two completely clinches my argument, for there Shakespeare confesses that it is his own...
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