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" I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates : for their children will sooner much forget the death of their father than the loss of their... "
A Short Treatise on the Isle of Man: Digested Into Six Chapters - Page 69
by James Chaloner - 1863 - 138 pages
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Historical notices of Edward and William Christian; two characters in ...

Edward Christian - 1823 - 62 pages
...laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed." " I remember one said it was much safer to take mens lives than their estates : for their children will...the death of their- father than the loss of their patrimonie." 12 Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650, 13 after•an imprisonment of between...
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The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ...

J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed." — ' I remember one sayd it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates ; for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie *.' Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650 f, after an imprisonment of between seven...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 28

Sir Walter Scott - 1831 - 376 pages
...then might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed." " I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates : for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie."* Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650,•j- after an imprisonment of between...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1830 - 658 pages
...silence, when their own personal interests were at stake and their own fortunes affected ? " Men do sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony," says Macbiavel, and we confess that the petitions which have been laid before Parliament, instead of...
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Introductions, and Notes and Illustrations to the Novels, Tales ..., Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed. " " I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates ; for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie. "* Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650, -f- after an imprisonment of between...
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Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peak

Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed. " " I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates; for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie."* Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650, f after an imprisonment of between seven...
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Commentaries on the Law of Nations

William Oke Manning - International law - 1839 - 450 pages
...vanquished nation to a change of sovereignty, according to the maxim, as old as Machiavel, that " men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony." Even at the present day, when a respect for private property on land generally obtains, the right is...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 14

1839 - 500 pages
...even in cases of punishment for treason, he ought not to resort to confiscation, ' because men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.' The 18th chapter, which has been considered as the most obnoxious, is in answer to the question, '...
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Waverley Novels: Vol. 7, Volume 7

Walter Scott - 1845 - 878 pages
...then might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed." " I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates ; for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie." * Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in l650, f after an imprisonment of between seven...
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Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott - 1853 - 752 pages
...then might he laugh at us, whom I had rather he had betrayed." "I remember one said it was much safer to take men's lives than their estates : for their...forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimonie."-)- Edward died in custody in Peel Castle in 1650, J after an imprisonment of between seven...
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