 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 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...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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...or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate... | |
 | William Cosmo Monkhouse - 1878 - 224 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...these things are graceful in a Friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a Man's person hath many proper Relations which he cannot put... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 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...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1878 - 312 pages
...sentences subdivided by semi-colons, unless numerous and complex, should be separated by colons ; as, " A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in his own." RULE 2. — Supplementary Clauses. — A supplementary clause, introduced... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1878 - 790 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 fuce or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less... | |
 | James T. Jones, Mary Leslie - 1878 - 308 pages
...SIXTEENTH. " I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul — ." — SHAKSPEARE. " 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 I have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 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...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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...himself ! A man can scarce allege his own merits with «50 modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...(rooked, perverted. 207. xparinic, reasonable, moderate. 211. hestowine. disposal. for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which...less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to suppli- 2 cate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth,... | |
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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... 
