 | Laurence Lampert - Philosophy - 1993 - 500 pages
...myself" (Descartes's reply to the first letter); he is able to do what Bacon said a friend could do: "How many things are there which a man cannot, with...man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg." But a Parisian friend can: "All these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...friendship is, all offices13 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...modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook1 to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 pages
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 | Bruce R. Smith - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 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...sometimes brook to supplicate or beg. And a number of such like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...of Life, are as it were granted to Him, and his Deputy. For he may exercise 235 them by his Frend. How many Things are there, which a Man cannot, with any Face or Comelines, say or doe Himselfe? A Man can scarce alledge his owne Merits with [Y2] modesty, | much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...friendship is, all offices0 of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise0 them by his friend. How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face0 or comeliness,0 say or do himself?0 A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much... | |
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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... 
