 | James Kent - 1884 - 728 pages
...through a regular coarse of descent to the time of William the Conqueror, observed, that " there was no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness,...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to uphold it" (Sir W. Jones, 101 ; 1 Charles I.) But the lustre of families and the entailments... | |
 | John Philip Hore - 1886 - 402 pages
...covenant of myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for I suppose that there is not many that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness,...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... | |
 | John Philip Hore - 1886 - 400 pages
...covenant of myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for I suppose that there is not many that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness,...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... | |
 | Hamilton Andrews Hill - 1889 - 718 pages
...the eighteenth earl, Lord Chief Justice Crewe gave a decision in which he said : — " I have labored to make a covenant with myself, that affection may...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 end to all... | |
 | James Kent - 1889 - 666 pages
...recommended in moobserved, that "there was no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, hut his affection stands to the continuance of so noble...take hold of a twig or twine thread to uphold it." (Sir W. Jonex' Rep. 101, 1 Charles I.) But the lustre of families, and the entailments of property,... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1914 - 886 pages
...Parliament, in the first year of Charles I (Sir William Jones's Rep., 1 vol., p. 96) viz.: "I have labored to make a covenant with myself that affection may...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to uphold it. ' ' For "gentry and nobleness," read public, weal, and for "name and house,"... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1893 - 510 pages
...tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may...there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry and nobleness, but his affection stands to the continuance of so noble a name and house, and would... | |
 | James Paterson - 1896 - 808 pages
...produce such a peer holding one and the selfsame name and title. Then he continned : " I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may...apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands in the continuance of a house so illustrious, and would take hold of a twig or twine thread to uphold... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1899 - 548 pages
...Lord-justice Crewe when pronouncing his judgment on the great case in 1620 for the family honours : ' I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension...to the continuance of so noble a name and house.' Less familiar is the entail of his estates by the seventeenth earl (Io7'">) for the preservation of... | |
 | 1901 - 710 pages
...tempestuous times, when the government was unsettled, and the Kingdom in Competition. "I have labored to make a covenant with myself, that affection may...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... 
