| Henry Maudsley - Conduct of life - 1902 - 468 pages
...comeliness, say or do for himself; allegations of merit and supplications for advancement being " things that are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own." Certainly if self-interest be not the foundation of friendship, it is wise self-interest to make a... | |
| Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 470 pages
...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...man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper 1 relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but... | |
| Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 466 pages
...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....friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own. None of Bacon's Essays are more interesting than those in which he affords us glimpses of himself.... | |
| Richard Garnett - English literature - 1903 - 468 pages
...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....friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own. None of Bacon's Essays are more interesting than those in which he affords us glimpses of himself.... | |
| Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...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...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
...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;...number of the like. But all these things are graceful sin a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper0... | |
| Kate O'Neill - English language - 1906 - 200 pages
...march it is ended ; The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more. 3. — A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them;...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. THE COLON IN TITLE-PAGES. RULE V.—The Main Title of a book is sometime^ followed by an explanatory... | |
| JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...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...which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his own son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend... | |
| Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 272 pages
...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;...blushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person halh many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father;... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1908 - 428 pages
...own merits with modesty, much less 1 Estate. State or condition. 1 For that. Because, extol them ; 1 a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg...in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper2 relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife... | |
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