 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...it maketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons ; it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...it maketh a kind of 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 - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...it maketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 554 pages
...their memory may die from the earth for want of an epitaph." Historical Memoirs of the House of Russel; from the Time of the Roman Conquest. By JH Wiffen,...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers Of time." Such a spectacle is presented to us in the illustrious family... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...it nraketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...it maketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...it maketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...it maketh a kind of disproportion between honour and means. As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 816 pages
...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,...to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ?" Now lawgivers, with whom these privileged orders originate,... | |
 | sir Thomas Dick Lauder (7th bart.) - 1825 - 928 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
