 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...  The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical ... - Page 83by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803Full view - About this book
 | 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...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 less than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...be abused by CHAP, thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness, which he enjoyed with Mabel his...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 - 482 pages
...however, be abused by thoughtless generosity. 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 * This grc-.t family, de Ripirriis, de R elvers, de Hirers, ended, in Edward the Fiist's time, in Is... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness, which he enjoyed with Mabel his...have ; What we spent we had ; What we left we lost. t But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expenses ; and their heirs,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 474 pages
...however be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his...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 less than... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 502 pages
...be abused by " thoughtless generosity. 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 : — lllljat tot gabt, tor babt; Illljat tot spent, tot ijati ; lilliat tot ltft, tot loot," 1 Froissart,... | |
 | Clarkson Stanfield - Coasts - 1836 - 304 pages
...may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness, which he enjoyed with Mabel his...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 less than... | |
 | 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,...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 less than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1841 - 504 pages
...be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of imion and happiness, which he enjoyed with Mabel his wife,...have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost. (85) But their lusses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expenses ; and their heirs,... | |
 | William Harding - 1845 - 428 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...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 less than... | |
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