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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. "
A Treatise on English Punctuation ...: With an Appendix, Containing Rules on ... - Page 134
by John Wilson - 1855 - 334 pages
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 5

John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 pages
...olb'cei of life are, as it were, granted to mm 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 tay or do himself? A man can scarce allege hi-, own merits v.-ith modesty, much less extol them ; a...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 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...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

1821 - 416 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, aud a number of the like : but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing...
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The Classical Journal, Volume 29

1824 - 456 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...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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 598 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 of comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 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...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 9

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 822 pages
...But 'tis not so. Shakupeare. Juliut Ceemr. Shame itself! Why do you make such faces ? Id. Macbeth. How many things are there which a man cannot, with...a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg. Bacon, A man shall see facet, which, if you examine them part by p»rt, you shall never find good ;...
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Classical Examinations: Or, A Selection of University Scholarship ..., Volume 1

University of Cambridge - 1830 - 636 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...or comeliness, say or do himself? A man can scarce alledge his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate,...
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