 | 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 much ingenuity, a moral sentence, which, however, may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 484 pages
...Parliament of England ; their alliances were contracted with the noblest families, the Veres, Despensers, St Johns, Talbots, Bohuns, and even the Plantagenets...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 482 pages
...their alliances were contracted with the noblest families, the Veres, Despensers, St Johns, Talbotr, Bohuns, and even the Plantagenets themselves ; and...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... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...appropriated to devotion and hospitality ; and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed, from his misfortune, the blind-— from his. virtues, the Good Earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which, however, may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1820 - 474 pages
...her brother and busband (Dujdalc, Baronage, p. i;p:SSi-2S7. CHAP. blind, from his vjrtues, tiiegood, earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...appropriated to devotion and hospitality ; and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed, from his misfortune, the Mimt, from his virtues, the good, earl, inculcates with...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,... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 502 pages
...his age. He was buried in the Abbey of Ford ; and, again to use the words of Gibbon, " his epitaph inculcates, with much " ingenuity, a moral sentence,...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 506 pages
...Ford ; and, again to use the words of Gibbon, " his epitaph inculcates, with much " ingenuity, amoral sentence, which may however be abused by " thoughtless...generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the " fifty-five7 years of union and happiness which he enjoyed with *' Mabel his wife, the good Earl thus... | |
 | Clarkson Stanfield - Coasts - 1836 - 304 pages
...appropriated to devotion and hospitality; and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed from his misfortune, the blind, from his virtues, the good earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which, however, may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...appropriated to devotion and hospitality ; and the epitaph of Edward, surnamed from his misfortune, the blind, from his virtues, the good, earl, inculcates...generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five 83 Besides the third and most valuable book of Clcaveland's History, I have. consulted Dugdale,... | |
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Edward, surnamed, from his misfortune, the blind, from his virtues, the good, earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which may however be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union... 
