 | Walter Raleigh - Literary style - 1898 - 184 pages
...which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may...requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.'" The like "proper relations'" govern writers, even where their audience is unknown to them. It has often... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...hear with eies belongs to love's fine wit. Sonnet xxm. The World a Stage I have given the rule when a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend he may quit the stage. Essay on Friendship. But men must know that in this Theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for... | |
 | Michael Pakaluk - Philosophy - 1991 - 292 pages
...which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may...part: if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. LECTURE ON FRIENDSHIP Introduction Immanuel Kant's longest continuous treatment of friendship is in... | |
 | Ariel Books - Family & Relationships - 1992 - 100 pages
...Wadsworth Longfellow A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may...case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. — Francis Bacon It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never... | |
 | Richard Strier - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 260 pages
...emphasis on "face or comeliness," on decorum. This allows Fish to read the final maxim of the essay ("where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage") as suggesting that the ideal is to play one's own part successfully, to which there is no real alternative.... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - Literary Collections - 1999 - 68 pages
...forgive our friends.' A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms; whereas a friend may...case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. You may take sarza to open the liver; steel to open the spleen; flowers of sulphur for the lungs; castoreum... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms:3 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with4 the person. But to enumerate these things were endless; I have given the rule, where a man cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...its status as a generalization is formally signalled: for example, 'this is a sure Rule' (IX. 155); 'I have given the Rule, where a Man cannot fitly play his owne Part : If he have not a Frend, he may quit the Stage' (XXVII. 247-8); 'certaine it is, that Nothing... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms:0 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with0 the person. But to enumerate these things were endless; I have given the rule, where a man cannot... | |
 | Philip Bean - Crime - 2003 - 484 pages
...Source: P. Sainsbury, Suicide in London, Maudsley Monograph, 1955, pp. 68-83; 87-88; 89-92. Discussion But to enumerate these things were endless: I have...part: if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. Francis Bacon, 1607. It has been shown, not only that the suicide rates of the London boroughs differ... | |
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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father ; to his wife, but as a husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person. 
