 And yet Time hath his revolutions ; there must be a period and an end to all temporal things—; finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene, and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer...  Selected Essays - Page 203by Abraham Hayward - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Eugene Coleman Savidge - Biography & Autobiography - 1891 - 398 pages
...eloquently, as once did a great old lawyer, mourning for an extinguished and illustrious race of nobles : " Where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer...entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. . . ." 29* 341 The highest works of human skill and human thought outlive through ages the creatures... | |
 | James Mew - Spain - 1891 - 162 pages
...of whatsoever is terrene." Where is Bohun? where is Movvbray? where is Mortimer? where, most of all, is Plantagenet ? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. Before they died out and were lost there were Bohuns, and Mowbrays, and Mortimers, and Plantagenets... | |
 | James Waylen - 1908 - 154 pages
...end of all temporal things finis rerum, an end of names and dignities and whatsoever is terrene. .... For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer...entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality." — LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE CRBWE. " "Tis opportune to look back upon old times, and contemplate our forefathers.... | |
 | Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 530 pages
...celebrated opinion respecting the Earldom of Oxford, said, "there must be an end of names and dignities;— for where is Bohun! Where is Mowbray? Where is Mortimer?...is Plantagenet? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality." There is no more enduring page in English history than when one of her judges... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 840 pages
...Bohun? Where is Mowbray? Where is Mortimer? Kay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantaponet? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality....dignity of De Vere stand so long as it pleaseth God." The judges were particularly sententious in their use of analogy, as where Hobart interest. The radical... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore, Ernst Freund, William Ephraim Mikell - Law - 1908 - 844 pages
...things, — finis rernm; an end of names and dignities and whatsoever is terrene: and whv not of De Vere? For where is Bohun? Where is Mowbray? Where is Mortimer?...all, where is Plantagenet? They are entombed in the urtis and sepulehres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity of De Vere stand so long as it... | |
 | Samuel Furman Hunt - History - 1908 - 528 pages
...celebrated opinion respecting the Earldom of Oxford, said, "there must be an end of names and dignities;— for where is Bohun? Where is Mowbray? Where is Mortimer! Nay, which is more and most of all, where is Plantagenetf They are entombed in the urns and sepulchers of mortality." There is no more enduring... | |
 | Association of American Law Schools - Common law - 1908 - 820 pages
...dignities and whatsoever is terrene: and whv not of DC Vere? For where is Bohun? Where is Mowhray? Where is Mortimer? Nay, which is more and most of all. where is Plantaprenet? They are entombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. And yet let the name and dignity... | |
 | Thomas Herbert Lewin - England - 1909 - 450 pages
...end of all temporal things, finis rerum, and end of names and dignities and whatsoever is terrene. For where is Bohun ? where is Mowbray ? where is Mortimer...more and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are intombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality." Thus spoke an ancient of days — a learned man... | |
 | John Horace Round - Great Britain - 1910 - 424 pages
...things, finis rerum, an end of names and dignities, and whatsoever is terrene ; and why not of De Vere ? For where is Bohun ? Where is Mowbray ? Where is Mortimer...more, and most of all, where is Plantagenet ? They are intombed in the urns and sepulchres of mortality. Their names, indeed, might pass away ; but Crewe... | |
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