 | Walter Scott - 1806 - 478 sider
...— Apud DalyclFs Fragments. Honest Patten proceeds, with great prolixity, to prove, that this was a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; and, like Fluellen, declares, " that such idle pribble " prabbles were contrary to all the good customs... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 532 sider
...76.—Apud DALYELL'S Fragments. Honest Patten proceeds, with great prolixity, to prove, that this was a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; and, like Fluellen, declares, " that such idlepribble " prabbles were contrary to all the good customs and... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 534 sider
...76.—Apud DALYELL'S Fragments. Honest Patten proceeds, with great prolixity, to prove, that this was a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; and, like Fluellen, declares, " that such idlepribble •' prabbles were contrary to all the good customs... | |
 | 1823 - 400 sider
...performed, and the characteristic Hinham sung in chorus at the end of each stanza. Such was the outline of a custom ' more honoured in the breach than in the observance,' — and which is of no further interest than as it illustrates the gross manners of the age, and the ignorance... | |
 | 1825 - 546 sider
...in one piece, they could legally claim ftir the same number in all three pieces — that it was Bt my option to have had them all sawed in the same way,...may cause some other buyers to make previous inquiry re. spectingthe charge for sawing before :they give orders for ita being done, , and thus avoid, an... | |
 | 1825 - 484 sider
...way, and then the charge would have "been no more. This sawyer's logic, however, is not satisfjjctorv to me ; for although it is my anxious wish that every...buyers to make previous inquiry respecting the charge forstuvingbefore they give orders for its being done, and thus avoid an addition of more than five... | |
 | 1833 - 894 sider
...ingeoioui enough to justify it, and much less amongst the more enlightened and wealthier dwes. ' Tis a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ' — and we would uclaim to our readers, earnestly, < reform it altogether.' I«et it not be said that those... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 398 sider
...— Apud DALYELL'S Fragments. Honest Patten proceeds, with great prolixity, to prove, that this was a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; and, like Muellen, declares, ' ' that such idle pribble-prabbles were contrary to all the good customs and... | |
 | Aeschylus - 1839 - 442 sider
...altogether in favour of Latin Notes ; yet has it been ably argued*, that at the present day this is " a custom more honoured in the breach, than in the observance ;" and not by assertion only, but by more than one successful experiment has it been shewn, that the English... | |
 | Alexander Haldane - 1852 - 708 sider
...Scotland usually had two soldiers as sentinels before his door, but Sir Ralph declared that it was a " custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance," and, considering it to be a useless parade, he would not allow the men to be thus fatigued. The sentry-boxes... | |
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Fragments. Honest Patten proceeds, with great prolixity, to prove, that this was a custom more honoured in the breach than in the observance ; and, like Fluellen, declares, "that such idle pribble-prabbles were contrary to all the good customs and disciplines... 
