 | David Hume - 1820 - 346 страници
...as far as we know; I say expressly as far as we know: for certainly we do not know them fully. We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream; not in the root, but in the stotk and stem; for we know not who was the first mean man that did by his virtue raise himself above... | |
 | 1853 - 326 страници
...present collection. The romantic historian of the house of Douglas has said of his subject, 'We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stemme ; for we know not who was the first mean man that did by his virtue raise himself above the... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1828 - 376 страници
...warlike race. One of their historians, (Hume of Godscroft,) in speaking of their origin, says,—" We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stemme ; for we know not, who was the first mean man, that did raise himself above the vulgar." The... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 страници
...in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...renowned family. This he alleges to have been one Theobaldus Flammaticus, or Theobald the Fleming, to whom Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, between the year 1147... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 страници
...in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...renowned family. This he alleges to have been one Theobaldus Flammaticus, or Theobald the Fleming, to whom Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, between the year 1147... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 страници
...in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...renowned family. This he alleges to have been one Theobaldus Flammaticus, or Theobald the Fleming, to whom Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, between the year 1147... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 страници
...in Godseroft for the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...the historian had attended more to research than to deelamation, he might easily have seen the first mean man of this renowned family. This he alleges... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 538 страници
...in Godscrofl tor the purpose of confuting' it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, "We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, hut in the stem ; lor we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar." This assumption... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 502 страници
...in Godscroft for the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...renowned family. This he alleges to have been one Theobaldus Fh,mmaticus, or Theobald the Fleming, to whom Arnold, Abbot of Kelso, between the year 1147... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1853 - 642 страници
...in Godscroft lor the purpose of confuting it. The historian (of the Douglasses) cries out, " We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ;...renowned family. This he alleges to have been one Thenlmldus Flammaticus, or Theobald the Fleming, to whom Arnold, Abbot of .Kclso, between the year... | |
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We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream ; not in the root, but in the stem ; for we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar. 
