 | Thomas Cromwell - Architecture - 1820 - 570 pages
...with these remarkable words: — " And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment...of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, to continue what I have begun." — During the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, many... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - Architecture - 1825 - 744 pages
...with the following impressive words: " Lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment...of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, to continue what I have begun." A copy of John Clynn's chronicle is in the possession of Sir William... | |
 | Ireland - 1832 - 448 pages
...examined, I have reduced into wilting j and lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment...of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, to continue what I have begun." LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND. We intend to present our readers regularly... | |
 | 1838 - 1014 pages
...reduced into writing ; and lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail with (be workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing...of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, to continue what I have begun." Among the manuscripts of Sir Hans Slonr.e, preserved in the British... | |
 | John D'Alton - Drogheda (Ireland) - 1844 - 502 pages
...examined, I have reduced into writing. And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment...of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, to continue what I have begun." In 1348, the King appointed Andrew de Guldef, Admiral of Ireland, and... | |
 | Thomas Walsh - Catholics - 1854 - 926 pages
...I have delivered with veracity, and have strictly examined, I have reduced into writing ; and l^st the writing should perish with the writer, and the...Cromwell ; they were afterwards faithfully transcribed through the means of Sir James Lee, earl of Marlburg, on which occasion the copy was carefully deposited... | |
 | Saint Francis (of Assisi) - 1867 - 678 pages
...brother seems to have had some forebodings of his impending fate, for his last written words run thus : " And, lest the writing should perish with the writer,...pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun." This abbey was also one of the great literary schools of Ireland, and had its halls of philosophy and... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1868 - 642 pages
...seems to have had some forebodings of his impending fate, for his last written words run thus : — " And, lest the writing should perish with the writer,...should escape this pestilence, and live to continue 278 DUBLIN AND MULTIFARNHAM. •what I have begun." This abbey was also one of the great literary schools... | |
 | Margaret Anna Cusack - 1870 - 488 pages
...forebodings of ECCLESIASTICAL APPAIRS. 251 his impending fate, for his last written words run thus : — ' And, lest the writing should perish with the writer,...pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun.' This abbey was also one of the great literary schools of Ireland, and had its halls of philosophy and... | |
 | Mary Francis Cusack - Ireland - 1875 - 742 pages
...seems to have had some forebodings of his impending fate, for his last written words run thus : — " And, lest the writing should perish with the writer,...pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun." This abbey was also one of the great literary schools of Ireland, and had its halls of philosophy and... | |
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And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work should fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing it, if any man should have the good fortune. to survive this calamity, or any one of the race of Adam should escape... 
