...— 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...— 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...

...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...

...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...