 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 532 pages
...and supplements our achievements with the zeal of his own devoted endeavor. 'A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own.'" When he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1985 - 336 pages
...scarce alledge11 his owne Merits with modesty, much lesse extoll them : A man cannot sometimes brooke to Supplicate or Beg; And a number of the like. But all these Things are Gracefull in a Frend's Mouth, which are Blushing" in a Man's Owne. So againe, a Man's Person 250 hath... | |
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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 all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. 
