 On the same subject a writer in the Connoisseur (No. 39) effect of compact and agreement, that a ring should be put on for each other's sake ; to try whether, if one should break his promise, the other would have any feeling of it in his absence.  The Works of Francis Bacon: Sylva sylvarum - Page 178by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | William Jones - Folklore - 1880 - 584 pages
...whether, if one should break his promise, the other would have any feeling of it in his absence. " It is supposed a help to the continuance of love to...glove, or other the like favour, might do as well." suggests : " If I should not be thought to lay too much stress on the lesser formalities observed in... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1880 - 634 pages
...whether, if one should break his promise, the other would have any feeling of it in his absence. " It is supposed a help to the continuance of love to...wear a ring or bracelet of the person beloved ; but ihis may proceed from exciting the imagination, which, perhaps, a glove, or other the like favour,... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1880 - 778 pages
...whether, if one should break his promise, the other would have any feeling of it in his absence. " It is supposed a help to the continuance of love to wear a ring or bracelet of the person beloved ; Init this may proceed from exciting the imagination, which, perhaps, a glove, or other the like favour,... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Blood - 1885 - 374 pages
...1See Finger Ring Lore, pp. 177-197. THE KING AND HIS GOD. 75 Bacon says : " It is supposed [to be] a help to the continuance of love, to wear a ring or bracelet of the person beloved ; " 1 and he suggests that " a trial should be made by two persons, of the effect of compact and agreement... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Blood - 1885 - 372 pages
...was pledged passed into the token of its pledging. Thus Lord Bacon says : " It is supposed [to be] a help to the continuance of love, to wear a ring or bracelet of the person beloved ; " l and he suggests that " a trial should be made by two persons, of the effect of compact and agreement... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - Blood - 1885 - 372 pages
...pledging. Thus Lord 1 1 1 See Finger Ring Lore, pp. 177-197. . 1 Bacon says : " It is supposed [to be] a help to the continuance of love, to wear a ring or bracelet of the person beloved ; " 1 and he suggests that " a trial should be made by two persons, of the effect of compact and agreement... | |
 | William Jones - Superstition - 1898 - 618 pages
...whether, if one should break his promise, the other would have any feeling of it in his absence. " It is supposed a help to the continuance of love to...exciting the imagination, which, perhaps, a glove, or oiher the like favour, might do as well." suggests : " If I should not be thought to lay too much stress... | |
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