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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... "
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ...
by John Mason Good - 1813
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The Bulletin of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of ..., Volume 3, Issue 12

Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1911 - 46 pages
...whose interests he has advanced by his labors. Bacon, in one of his essays, that on Friendship, says: "How many things are there which a man cannot with...man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg." Dr. Ellis not only could not allege his own merits, he refused to recognize them and abhorred the very...
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Alarums and Excursions

James Agate - English drama - 1922 - 274 pages
...yes, my lord ; he wore his beaver up. Hamlet, Act i., sc. 2. HOW many things are there," says Verulam, "which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself!" "It has often been remarked," echoes Professor Raleigh, "how few are the story-tellers who can introduce...
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Representative English Essays

Warner Taylor - American essays - 1923 - 532 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...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - American essays - 1923 - 444 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...
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A History of English Literature

William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike - English literature - 1924 - 500 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. Of Friendship. THE CAVALIER LYRIC Lyric Poetry. The most characteristic...
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Century Types of English Literature Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise : Shadow of annoyance Never came near thee: Thou lovest;...dream, Or how could thy notes flow in such a crystal are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put...
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A Little Book of Friendship

Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - Friendship - 1925 - 188 pages
...desiring 88 have set their heart upon 84 that is, in marriage 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...
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Outlines of English Literature: With Readings

William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...children, if need be ; and finally, that he can spare our modesty while trumpeting our virtues : " How many things are there which a man cannot, with...these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own." In old Arabic manuscripts one frequently finds a record having the appearance...
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The Copeland Reader

Charles Townsend Copeland - American literature - 1926 - 1746 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise arge rabbithole unde are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put...
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Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to Clarendon

Jacob Zeitlin - Civilization, Modern - 1926 - 408 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...
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