 | Francis Bacon - 2005 - 412 pages
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 | Edwin A. Abbott - 2006 - 284 pages
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 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot... | |
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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... 
