 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
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1882 - 480 pàgines
...bestowing, the disposal. 177. as it were. Give the grammatical construction. STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. like; but all these things are graceful in a friend's...which are blushing in a man's own. So, again, a man's 185 person hath many proper relations, which he cannot put off. A man- cannot speak to his son but... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | George Wilkes - 1882 - 512 pàgines
...are twelve, and three times five are fifteen. Let us give some illustrations of these: "A man can not speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms." " Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them." " Where some ants carry... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pàgines
...; and a number of the like. But nil these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which arblushing in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many...speak to his son, but as a father ; to his wife, but ua husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms ; whereas a friund may speak as the case requires, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pàgines
...less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like : bnt all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth,...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 son but as a father; to his wife... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 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...but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to Uis enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1885 - 908 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...friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own. — Lord Bacon, 1560-1626. (2097.) Heraclitus saith well in one of his enigmas, •* "Dry light is... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pàgines
...own merits with modesty, much less extol them. A man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg, and a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet. The cold sweat melted from their limbs, (1) in a man's own. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pàgines
...merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to suppli-uo 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pàgines
...merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and Mexico, dim as dreams, and soundings of the Bay of...whose substance might defy any, short of the last, ns a husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and... | |
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