| 1909 - 310 pages
...Case, Sir W. Jones, 101), in the stately English of the seventeenth century, of the house of de Veré: "I suppose there is no man that hath any apprehension...or twine thread to uphold it. And yet time hath his revolution, there must be a period and an end of all temporal things, finis rerum, an end of names... | |
| 1926 - 512 pages
...commencement of that which we have mentioned. We have space for only a short extract : — " I have laboured 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. And yet Time hath his revolution ; there must be a period and an end to... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 872 pages
...for a woman's sake. CHAPTER I. OF THE LINEAGE AND CONDITION OF SIR JOHN CONSTANTINE. I have laboured to make a covenant with myself, that affection may...of gentry or nobleness, but his affection stands to a continuance of a noble name and house, and would take hold of a twig or twine-thread to uphold it... | |
| John Beer - 1993 - 50 pages
...possibility, yet maintained that, however undesirable, it would not be without precedent: I have laboured 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; and yet time hath his revolution, there must be a period and an end of all... | |
| 1890 - 340 pages
...From a judgment by LCJ SIR RANULPHE CREWE, on a claim to the Oxford peerage. 1625 -L HAVE laboured 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, and yet time hath his revolution; there must be a period and an end to all... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1869 - 860 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 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... | |
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