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... Second Latin writer. [With] Key - Page 117by George Lovett Bennett - 1881Full view - About this book
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