------He would often boast that the _Shandy_ family rank'd very high in King _Harry_ the VIIIth's time, but owed its rise to no state engine--he would say--but to that only; ----but that, like other families, he would add----it had felt the turn of the wheel, and had never recovered the blow of my great-grandfather's nose. 
He would often boast that the Shandy family ranked very high in King Harry the VIIIth's time, owing to its noses; - but that it had never recovered from the blow of my great-grandfather's nose. 