 | Francis Bacon - 1958 - 218 pages
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 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - Literary style - 1898 - 184 pages
...frank ways of hazard, by Satan rebuking sin. " How many things are there," exclaims the wise Verulam, "which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! A man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1966 - 288 pages
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 | 1966 - 212 pages
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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... 
