 | 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
...be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of the union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his...we have; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost. But their leases in this sense were far superior to their gifts and expences; and their heirs,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - Architecture - 1803 - 662 pages
...be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of the union and happiness which he enjoyed with Mabel his...we 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,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 780 pages
...virtues, the Good Earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which, however, may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration...gave we 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Le Scrope - Heraldry - 1832 - 502 pages
..." his epitaph inculcates, with much " ingenuity, a moral sentence, which may however be abused by " thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration...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
...virtues, the good earl, inculcates with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which, however, may be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration...WE 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,... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | 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 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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1851 - 694 pages
...her brother and husband, (Dugdale, Baronage, T. ip 254—257.) years of union and happiness which lie enjoyed with Mabel his wife, the good earl thus speaks...tomb : — " What we gave, we have ; "What we spent, wo had ; What we left, we lost." "" But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts... | |
 | Sussex Archaeological Society - Archaeology - 1850 - 312 pages
...welcome." 79 A free translation of this is to be found in the epitaph of the good Earl of Courtenay : " What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we had, we lost." GIBBON'S Hist, of the Courtenay Family. 80 "To the Society for the Propagation of the... | |
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What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost... 
