 After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks from the tomb : What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost...  Peerage of England. ... - Page 236by Arthur Collins - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1803 - 716 pages
...devotion and hospitality ; and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed, from his misfortune, the Blind, and from his virtues, the Good, Earl, inculcates, with...grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of the union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1803 - 662 pages
...surnames!, from his misfortune, the Blind, and from his virtues, the Good, Earl, inculcates, with miich ingenuity, a moral sentence, which, however, may be...grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of the union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...eenealoirical science (Baronage. P. ip 6oi..eW3). nuity a moral sentence, which may however be abused by CHAP, thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration...we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost.85 But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expenses ; and their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 484 pages
...from his virtues, the good, Earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which may, however, be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful...wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb ; What * This great family, de Ripuariis, de Redvers, de Rivers, ended, in Edward the Fiist's time, in Isabella... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 474 pages
...from his vjrtues, tiiegood, earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which may however be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful...What we spent, we had; • What we left, we lost.' But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expences; and their heirs, not... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1825 - 488 pages
...from his virtues, the good, earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which may however be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful...gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.q f This great family, de Ripuariis, de Redvers, de Rivers, ended in Edward the First's time,... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 502 pages
...words of Gibbon, " his epitaph inculcates, with much " ingenuity, a moral sentence, which may however be abused by " thoughtless generosity. After a grateful...his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb : — lllljat tot gabt, tor babt; Illljat tot spent, tot ijati ; lilliat tot ltft, tot loot," 1 Froissart,... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 506 pages
...however be abused by " thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the " fifty-five7 years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with...his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb : — toe rj.itic, toe l),il»r ; toe Spent, toe l),ib ; lili),u toe left, toe lost." 1 Froissart,... | |
 | Clarkson Stanfield - Coasts - 1836 - 304 pages
...noblest families of England, the Veres, Despensers, St. Johns, Talbots, Bohuns, and even the Plantagenets themselves; and in a contest with John of Lancaster,...HAVE ; WHAT WE SPENT, WE HAD ; WHAT WE LEFT, WE LOST. But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expenses; and their heirs, not... | |
 | Martin Dunsford - 1836 - 300 pages
...grateful commemoration of the fifty five years of union and happiness, which he enjoyed with Isabel his wife, the good Earl thus speaks from the tomb,...have; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost. But their losses in this sense were far superior to their gifts and expences : and their heirs not... | |
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