 | Christianity - 1825 - 788 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, or to sec a lair timber tree gound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...because it draweth strongly the fattest juice of the earth. Huron. 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. BOOTH'» Eaay on Nobility. The Fescenine and Satumian were the same... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...Hilary and Candlemas Terms of law in the English and Scotch courts, conclude with the present day. It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle, or building, not in decay ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 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... | |
 | Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...Bacon which Mr. Wiffen, with a kindred taste, has selected as the auspicious motto of his task,—" It is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timbertree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family which hath stood against... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 764 pages
...this : — t( It is a reverend thing to see ün ancient castle or building not in decay ; or to sec a fair timber tree sound and perfect : how much more...behold an ancient, noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time !" For eight hundred years has the noble house of Russell resisted... | |
 | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen - 1833 - 634 pages
...It U a reverend thing to we an ancient cattle or building not in decay, or to tee a fair timber-tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time I " — Bacon. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES,... | |
 | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen - 1833 - 632 pages
...It Is a reverend thing to we an ancient rattle or building not In decay, or to ace a Mr timber-tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath itood against the wave, and weathers of time! "-B IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: LONGMAN, REES, ORME,... | |
 | Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen - 1833 - 630 pages
...to a reverend thing to aee an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to «ee a fall timber-tree sound and perfect ; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath itood against the waves and weathers of time I "—Bacon. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN,... | |
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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... 
