| James T. Jones, Mary Leslie - 1878 - 308 pages
...— SHAKSPEARE. " A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; - - - but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own I have given a rule where a man cannot fitly play his own part ; if he have not a friend he may quit... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...scarce allege his own merits with «50 modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like. But...a man's person hath many proper relations which he 255 cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ;... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...estate.' — Shokespere. face or comeliness say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merita with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot...in a man's own. So, again, a man's person hath many proper1 relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his eon but as a father ; to his wife... | |
| George Lovett Bennett - Latin language - 1880 - 206 pages
...cannot with any grace or comeliness say or do himself ? A man can scarcely 7 allege his own merits, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook...things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blustering in a man's own. 1. ad vivum. 2. the English present must often be rendered by a Latin future.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...sny or do himself! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a jnan ue and LORD BACON: Essay XX VII I., Of Friendship. It is better to decide a difference between our enemies... | |
| William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...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 suppli- 2 cate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth,... | |
| 1880 - 594 pages
...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 stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...scarce allege his own merits with 250 modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes stoop to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like. But...a man's person hath many proper relations which he 255 cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ;... | |
| George Lovett Bennett - 1881 - 208 pages
...cannot with any grace or comeliness say or do himself ? A man can scarcely 7 allege his own merits, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook...things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blustering in a man's own. 1. ad viviim. 2. the English present must often be rendered by a Latin future.... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 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. 80 again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to... | |
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