 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...offices of life are, as it were, granted to him and deputy; for he may exercise them by his friend. in habit, he ought so much the more to have taught...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 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...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Offices of Life, are as it were granted to him, and his deputy. For he may exercife them by his Friend, How many things are there, which a Man cannot, with any face or comelinefs, fay or do himfelf? A Man can fcarce allege his own Merits with modefty, much lefs extol... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 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 any face or comeliness, say or do himself i A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy : for he may exercise them by his friend. idiosus potest." A man would die, though he were neither...less worthy to observe, how little alteration in good and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing... | |
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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... 
