 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...cannot speak to his son but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband ; to his enemy but upon terms :36 whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and...own part, if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.31 NOTES ON ESSAY XXVII. 1. The quotation is from Aristotle (Politics, i, l): 'He that cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...255 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...But to enumerate these things were endless : I have »60'given the rule, where a man cannot fitly play his own part : if he have not a friend, he may quit... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...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. 222. are hhishing: that is, are fit to I culiar relations or conditions make one blush. which he cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...which he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his eon but as a father ; to his wife but as a husband : to his enemy but upon terms : whereas a friend may...person. But to enumerate these things were endless : J have given the rule, where a man cannot fitly play his own part ; if he have not a friend, he may... | |
 | Theophilus Dwight Hall - 1880 - 228 pages
...other. I. BACON (Essays). "... if a man u-atch too long, it is odds he will fall asleep." (Of Delays.) " I have given the rule where a man cannot fitly play...; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage." (Of Friendship.) "Solon said well to Croasus, — Sir, if any other come that hath better iron than... | |
 | 1880 - 594 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." — Bacon's Essays, XXVII, Paraphrase. — The life of a man is only of limited duration, and it may... | |
 | English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...he cannot put off. A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father ; to his wife, but as a husband ; apa X/ a rule, where a man cannot fitly play his own part ; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...255 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...But to enumerate these things were endless : I have i60 given the rule, where a man cannot fitly play his own part : if he have not a friend, he may quit... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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 speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth 7 with the person. But to enumerate these things were endless : I have given the rule, where a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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. XXVIU.— OF EXPENSE. RICHES are for spending, and spending for honour and good actions ; therefore... | |
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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. 
