 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 540 sayfa
...titles of De Vere. After describing the 500 years of unbroken lineage in the family, he exclaimed : " I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twinethread to uphold it. And yet Time has his revolutions ; — there must be a period and an end... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 552 sayfa
...titles of De Vere. After describing the 500 years of unbroken lineage in the family, he exclaimed : " I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that...continuance of so noble a name and house, and would tnke hold of a twig or a twinethread to uphold it. And yet Time has his revolutions ; — there must... | |
 | Alexander Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford - 1858 - 594 sayfa
...which prompted the eloquent language of Lord Chief Justice Crewe, — ' I suppose there is no man who hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine thread to uphold it.' But the claim of the Earl of Crawford stands on a firmer basis than mere... | |
 | James Kent - 1858 - 778 sayfa
...hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, hnt his affection stands to the continnance of so noblo a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to uphold it." (Sir W. Jones's Rep. 101. 1 Charles I.) Bnt the lustre of families and ttik entailments of property... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 434 sayfa
...without going quite the length of the Chief Justice's enthusiasm, we should have supposed, with him, ' there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, ' but would be anxious for the continuance of either of them, especially if it were rightfully his own. Yet... | |
 | Mark Antony Lower - 1860 - 540 sayfa
...in stormy and tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine-thread to uphold it. And yet Time hath his revolutions; there must be a period and an end to... | |
 | Bernard Burke - 1860 - 486 sayfa
...in stormy and tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or a twine thread to uphold it. And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 sayfa
...in stormy and tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that...affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and honse, and would take hold of a twig or a twine-thread to uphold it. And yet Time hath his revolutions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1860 - 576 sayfa
...without going quite the length of the Chief Justice's enthusiasm, we should have supposed, with him, ' there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness ' but would be anxious for the continuance of either of them, especially if it were rightfully his own. Yet... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1863 - 546 sayfa
...family, and those in stormy times, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry...nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of a house so illustrious, and would take hold of a twig or twine thread to uphold it. And yet Time hath... | |
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I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and... 
