 | Association of American Law Schools - 1908 - 842 pages
...honors of De Vere (W. Jones, 101) is one of the rare specimens of stately eloquence: " I have labored to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment; for I suppose that there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry and nobleness hut his affection stands to... | |
 | Charles Harding Firth - 1910 - 374 pages
...perished. ' I have laboured,' said â tâ Crewe, ' to make a covenant with myself, that affection 1525"9 may not press upon judgment; for I suppose there is...a name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to uphold it, and yet time hath his revolution ; there must be a period and an end to... | |
 | John Horace Round - 1910 - 424 pages
...liberty to adopt. In the famous words of Crewe, addressing the assembled Lords : â I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon judgment ; for 1 suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness but his affection stands... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1913 - 472 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...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 end to... | |
 | Uriah Milton Rose, George B. Rose - 1914 - 426 pages
...delivering his opinion on that occasion, said, in words that will be long remembered : "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... | |
 | 1917 - 1446 pages
...Lord-justice Crewe when pronouncing his judgment on the great case in 1626 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 (1575) for the preservation of the... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 256 pages
...tempestuous time, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for I suppose that there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 266 pages
...tempestuous time, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for I suppose that there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1922 - 138 pages
...tempestuous time, when the government was unsettled, and the kingdom in competition. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may not press upon judgment, for 24 1 suppose that there is no man that hath any apprehension of gentry or nobleness, but his aSection... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 pages
...some of whom I had the happiness personally to know. As Chief Justice Crewe said, " I have laboured to make a covenant with myself that affection may not press upon my judgement." I so entirely agree with the general principles of life, conduct, and taste which Ruskin... | |
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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... 
