 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...the pomegranate, full of many kernels ; I mean, aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face, or heaven and earth, the avenger of the cause of widows, the patron of the poor, and the advocate comeliness,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 274 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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Conduct of life - 1836 - 276 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...supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like : but nil these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again a man's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy : for he may exercise rged upon the attention of the king. The public acts of merit towards learning are conversant are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations, which he cannot put... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...the pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean, aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. How many things are there which a man cannot with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself 1 A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty," &c. As to the duties of friendship, some of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...the pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean, aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. How many things are there which a man cannot with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself t A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty," &c. As to the duties of friendship, some of... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 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.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...as it were, granted to him and his deputy ; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many tilings are there, which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness,...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...the pomegranate, full of many kernels; I mean, aid and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. How many things are there which a man cannot with...man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty," &c. As to the duties of friendahip, some of them are Secresy, which is the chastity of friendship ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...there which a man cannot, with any ¡лее or comeliness, say or do himself) A man can scarce allego 47 arc graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So, again, a man's person hath... | |
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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... 
