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. Bacon's Essays - Page 287by Francis Bacon - 1868 - 641 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1801 - 446 pages
...there which a man cannot with any face or comeliness say or do himself .' A rnan can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...may exercise them by his friend. LOUD BACON. HOW many things there are which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which* a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 714 pages
...deputy; for he may excrcke them by his friend. How many things are there which a man cannot with any face or comeliness say or do himself? A man can scarce...or beg ; and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which aie blushing in a man's own. So assain a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...deputy ; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which a man cannot with any face or comeliness say or do himself? A man can scarce...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...there, which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...there, which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...there, which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...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. So again, a man's person... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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. So again, a man's person hath many proper relations, which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father ; to his... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...supplicate or beg; and a number of the like: but ull these things are graceful in a friend's moulh, which are blushing in a man's own. So again a man's person hath many proper relation» which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak ю his son but as a father ; lo his wife... | |
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