 As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers...  The History of the County of Dublin - الصفحة 296بواسطة John D'Alton - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 943عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 214
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree ttmnd and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those that are first... | |
 | 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 554
...&c. 2 vols. 8vo. Mr. Wiffen is most happy in the selection of his motto — " It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers Of time." Such a spectacle is presented to us in the illustrious family of Russel. We contemplate its origin... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those that are... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 234
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons ; it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle, or building not in decay,...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood agamst the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 816
...rhetoric as Bacon brings into his ironical eulogium on nobility. " It is a reverend thing," says he, " to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ?" Now lawgivers, with whom these privileged orders originate, cannot be supposed to contemplate with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those that are... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those that are... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay,...hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time. Those that are... | |
 | sir Thomas Dick Lauder (7th bart.) - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 928
...XI. It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle nut in dec»y, or to sea a fair timber tree souml and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against tbc waves and weathers of time ? LORD There are millions of truths that a man is not concerned » know... | |
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