Scotch school, ie none of your modern agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments ; the eye alone, I think, indicated... Practical Phrenology - Seite 245von Silas Jones - 1836 - 336 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1828 - 722 Seiten
...agriculturists who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among... | |
| Constable and co, ltd - 1826 - 734 Seiten
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among... | |
| 1828 - 268 Seiten
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gitdcman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart - 1828 - 324 Seiten
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce giideman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation expressed perfect self-confidence, without the slightest presumption. Among... | |
| 1830 - 472 Seiten
...agriculturists, who keep labourers for their drudgery, but the douce gudeman who held his own plough. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, 1 think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. It was large, and of a dark cast, which... | |
| 1835 - 842 Seiten
...strong and robust: his manners rustic, not clownish, a sort of dignified plainness and simplicity. There was a strong expression of sense and shrewdness...when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation... | |
| Robert Burns - 1834 - 420 Seiten
...dark night, because they were first seen of any part of the Poet. — " I never saw," said Scott, " such another eye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time." In his ordinary moods, Burns looked a man of a hundred ; but when animated in company, he was... | |
| 1836 - 694 Seiten
...uncommonly interesting and expressive. He was very muscular, and possessed extraordinary strength of body." Sir Walter Scott, who had the fortune to see Burns,...though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time *." Independently of temperament and expression, however, there is a sufficiency of direct evidence... | |
| 1836 - 802 Seiten
...the poetical character and tfrm[>çr3(iiçht. It was large, and of a dark cast, which glowed, (1 sny literally glowed,) when he spoke with feeling or interest." "I never saw another such tye in a human head, though I have seen the most distinguished men of my time. His conversation... | |
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