 His appearance was striking. He was above the middle height, slight and spare. His head was large, his face remarkably like that of Julius Caesar. The forehead, the shape of the ears and nose, were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 75edited by - 1926Full view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 880 pages
...nose, were almost the same. The lines of his mouth were very peculiar, I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance', and believed...original force of character which refused to be moulded l>y circumstances, which was to make its own way and become a power in the world a clearness of intellectual... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 438 pages
...were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command others, both had... | |
 | 1881 - 858 pages
...were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command others, both had... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1889 - 1162 pages
...in his countenance an original force of character which refused to be molded by circumstances,, and which was to make its own way and become a power in the world. He was very nice, and, indeed, somewhat dainty in his habits, especially about his clothes. He made... | |
 | Henry James Jennings - 1882 - 190 pages
...were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command others, both had... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1883 - 396 pages
...lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of ttie resemblance, and believed that it extended to the...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command others; both had... | |
 | James J. Treacy - 1885 - 420 pages
...were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...an original force of character which refused to be molded by circumstances, which was to make its own way, and become a power in the world ; a clearness... | |
 | Thomas Leach - 1887 - 194 pages
...were almost the same. The lines of the mouth were very peculiar, and I should say exactly the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command others, both had... | |
 | Joseph Smith Fletcher - 1890 - 236 pages
...remarkably like that of Julius Caesar. The forehead, the shape of the ears and nose, were almost the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...wilful, but along with it a most attaching gentleness, sweetness, CHARM AS A PREACHER. 17 singleness of heart and purpose. Both were formed by nature to command... | |
 | 1895 - 684 pages
...remarkably like that of Julius Caesar. The forehead, the shape of the ears and nose, were almost the same. I have often thought of the resemblance, and believed...moulded by circumstances, which was to make its own wav and become a power in the world ; a clearness of intellectual perception, a disdain for conventionalities,... | |
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