 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 ... - Страница 83написао/ла John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1803Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1898 - 456 страница
...oh, for sweet charity, and the good that it can do. You remember the epitaph of Edward Courtenay : " What we gave we have, What we spent we had, What we left we lost." The fire had died out on the hearth, the moonbeams stole in through the half-opened shutters, the soft,... | |
 | 1899 - 222 страница
...Good/' wrote this epitaph for the tomb in which he and his beloved wife Mabel were to sleep together: What we gave we have : What we spent we had: What we left we lost. Miserliness is ever misery — the misery of poverty, conscious poverty—whether in individual or... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 688 страница
...however be abused by thoughtless generosity. After a grateful commemoration of the fifty-five years of union and happiness, which he enjoyed with Mabel,...we have ; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.81 But their losses, in this sense, were far superior to their gifts and expenses ; and their... | |
 | Perkins School for the Blind - 1901 - 952 страница
...friends and helpers. The privilege of giving, the greatest of privileges, must be extended to others. What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we kept, we lost. To those who have visited the kindergarten, — and we urge all who are interested in... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 страница
...Devonshire, according to Cleaveland's "Genealogical History of the Family of Courtenay," p. 142 : — What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. * Evce quomodo mundus suis servitoribua reddit mercedem (See how the world its veterans rewards. —... | |
 | 1905 - 634 страница
...with much ingenuity a moral sentence, which may, however, be abused by thoughtless generosity. . . . The good Earl thus speaks from the tomb : What we...; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost." The somewhat cynical couplet of Orientius which follows — Muñera quae donat moriens, haec muñera... | |
 | Newton Marshall Hall - 1906 - 518 страница
...More. God is always at leisure to do good to those that ask it. God helps those who help themselves. What we gave we have, what we spent we had, what we left we lost. — Epitaph of Edward, Earl of Decon. You may know him by the company he keeps. Better alone than in... | |
 | Helen Arnold - 1906 - 112 страница
...35. What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won. 36. Lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold. 37 What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost. THE PASSIVE VOICE In your definition of Verbs, what is the grammatical name of " anything ? " * When... | |
 | 1909 - 792 страница
...that I have lent as much in good will as I have borrowed. That is the way to count up your fortune. What we gave we have. What we spent we had. What we left we lost. The epitaph applies as well to the other things of life as to money. It is repeating a lesson as old... | |
 | John Tilden Prince - 1910 - 272 страница
...where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found, — Freedom to worship God. 60. What we gave, we have ; What we spent, we had ; What we left, we lost. 61. The merry linnet knew me, The squirrel knew me, and the dragon fly Shot by me like a flash of purple... | |
| |
