 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pagina’s
...he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face, or f superinducing that habit: for there be many precepts...ordering the exercises of the mind, as there is of sometijngs brook to supplicate, or beg, and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pagina’s
...A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much leas extol them ; a man can not sometunes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like,...So, again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he can not put off. A man can not speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pagina’s
...friend. How many things are there which a man can not, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself 1 A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man can not sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like, but all these things are graceful... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pagina’s
...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 allege...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 wife but as a husband... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pagina’s
...friend. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself1? A man can scarce allege his ' own merits with modesty,...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 wife but as a husband... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pagina’s
...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 allege...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 wife but as a husband;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...friend. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself i A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing io a man's own. So, again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pagina’s
...he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there, which a man cannot, with any face or nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same...less worthy to observe, how little alteration in good which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father ; to his wife, but as a husband;... | |
 | John Wilson - 1855 - 360 pagina’s
...the bagpipe shall wake him no more. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. When once our labor has begun, the comfort that enables us to endure it is the prospect of its end... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pagina’s
...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 allege...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 wife but as a husband... | |
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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. 
