 How many things 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 ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But...  The British Prose Writers - Pàgina 961821Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James T. Jones, Mary Leslie - 1878 - 308 pàgines
...— 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 - 1879 - 356 pàgines
...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...wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms :36 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person : but to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pàgines
...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...son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband j to his enemy but upon terms ; whereas, a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pàgines
...merits with «50 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...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 ;... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pàgines
...merits with modesty, much less extol them; a jnan cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and e ourselves that it is intercepted by an illpaired...since, if we could find any other obstacle, it would b LORD BACON: Essay XX VII I., Of Friendship. It is better to decide a difference between our enemies... | |
 | George Lovett Bennett - 1880 - 206 pàgines
...allege his own merits, 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 blustering in a man's own. 1. ad vivum. 2. the English present must often be rendered by a Latin future.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pàgines
...a friend's mouth, ; which are blushing 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 but as a husband : to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pàgines
...merits with 250 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...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 pàgines
...allege his own merits, 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 blustering in a man's own. 1. ad viviim. 2. the English present must often be rendered by a Latin future.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pàgines
...merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to suppli-i» cate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful...wife, but as a husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms : 225 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. But to... | |
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