 | Francis Pacon (viscount St. Albans) - 1900 - 442 pages
...is confined to a place ; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend....man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do him118 self! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...hearts," &c. —Ant.Cl.iL2. "This knot of amity."—! Hen. VI. i. 1. FRIENDSHIP'S Praise, and Support. " How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them. A man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1901 - 572 pages
...he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which a man can not, with any face 1 or comeliness * say or do himself ! A man can scarce...merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man can not sometimes brook to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like; but all these things are graceful... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...Offices of Life, are as it were granted to Him, and his Deputy. For he may exercise them by his Frend. How many Things are there, which a Man cannot, with any Face or Comelines, say or doe Himself e? A Man can scarce alledge his owne Merits with modesty, much lesse... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 468 pages
...precisely the reason assigned by Bacon for hurrying his essays into print. 304 8ELF-PRAI8E From Bacon " How many things are there which a man cannot with any face of comeliness say or do himself? A man can scarcely allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy, for he may exercise them by his friend....supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these Jhings are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pages
...is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy, for he may exercise them by his friend....there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness an say or do himself ! A man can scarce allege0 his own merits with modesty, much less extol them;... | |
 | Emogene Sanford Simons - English language - 1906 - 220 pages
...complex or compound, and (6) according to use, as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory: How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the... | |
 | Emogene Sanford Simons - English language - 1906 - 218 pages
...(&) according to use, as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory: How many things arc there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! In a long ramble of the kind, on a fine autumnal day, Rip had unconsciously scrambled to one of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 412 pages
...is confined to a place ; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend....his own merits with modesty, much less extol them jla man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things... | |
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... that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires. A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and... 
