 | Edwin A. Abbott - 2006 - 284 pages
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 | Thomas MacFaul - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 9 pages
...things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them;...in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.40 Bacon constantly looks for the usefulness of friendship, but this must be rooted in affection,... | |
 | Labor unions - 1955 - 890 pages
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 | History - 2009 - 122 pages
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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. 
