 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...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 cannot, with...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... | |
 | Robert Purvis - 1913 - 272 pages
...Arrol's modesty, simplicity, and total want of affectation. Bacon also says : " How many things are K there which a man cannot with any face or comeliness...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." Now the writer... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - 1915 - 352 pages
...his battles are fought, and his march it is ended; The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more. A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. A much more frequent use of the colon is in denoting enumeration: Many countries have a national flower:... | |
 | Solomon Henry Clark - 1915 - 328 pages
...his battles are fought, and his march it is ended ; The sound of the bagpipes shall wake him no more. A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty,...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. A much more frequent use of the colon is in denoting enumeration : Many countries have a national flower:... | |
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 pages
...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 cannot, with...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... | |
 | 1916 - 792 pages
...offices of fife are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend. or that the witchcraft of angelic smiles lies within...something more within its power; and the next article So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend. ing measures rise, Or plaintive Martyrs, worthy of...of Scotia's holy lays. Compar'd with these, Italian So again, a man's person hath many proper relations which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1917 - 588 pages
...children, if need be ; and finally, that he can spare our modesty while trumpeting our virtues : " How many things are there which a man cannot, with...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own." In old Arabic manuscripts one frequently finds a record having the appearance of truth ; but at the... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 698 pages
...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 cannot, with...comeliness, say or do himself ; A man can scarce allege hi> own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate, or beg,... | |
 | Henry Cecil Wyld - 1920 - 426 pages
...are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself? A man cannot alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them...friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own. vSo again, a man's person hath many proper relations, which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to... | |
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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... 
