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" 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... "
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ...
by John Mason Good - 1813
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...friend. How many things arc there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, fay or do himself I day Will whip you hence, And bind you, when you long to play, For your offence ; I'll s sometime) brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like : but all these things are graceful...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and hia deputy ; for he may exercise nicating of a man's self to his friend, works two...that impnrtvth his joys to his friend, but he joyeth ill these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So, again, a...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy ; for he may exercise them ly his friend. How many things are there which a man...cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg, and a nvmbei of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy : for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there, which...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...friendship M, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which...; and a number of the like : but all these things arc graceful in a friend'« mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. So, again, a man's ]>ereon hath...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and deputy; for he may exercise es and vices consist in habit, he ought so much the...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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy ; for he may exercise them by his 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...
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Foliorum Centuriae: Selections for Translation Into Latin and Greek Prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which...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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...friendship is, all offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and his deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. How many things are there which...man cannot, with any face, or comeliness, say or do himself1? A man can scarce allege his ' own merits with modesty, much less extol them : a man cannot...
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