 | 1896 - 690 Seiten
...everywhere) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz, would...it. It is said by learned etymologists that the name of doll, for the images children play with, is derived from the word idol. From the number of dolls... | |
 | New York Public Library - 1906 - 720 Seiten
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints, (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere,) have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him 10 run away, as his phi?, would discover him wherever he should venture... | |
 | Edith Helen Sichel - 1897 - 406 Seiten
...was complete without a ring or a snuff-box with his medallion. " These," he wrote to his daughter, "have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him wherever he should venture... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 Seiten
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that...wherever he should venture to show it. It is said bylearned etymologists that the name t/oll, for the images children play with, is derived from the... | |
 | Paul Elmer More More - 1900 - 160 Seiten
...pictures were drawn and medallions cut of his figure, until, as he wrote, his countenance was made " as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him wherever he should venture... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1900 - 162 Seiten
...pictures were drawn and medallions cut of his figure, until, as he wrote, his countenance was made " as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him wherever he should venture... | |
 | Sophia H. MacLehose - 1901 - 448 Seiten
...admiring countryman, while Franklin himself tells his daughter of the pictures, busts, and prints which " have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon," and of the medallions in his honour set in snuff-boxes and worn in rings.1 The age of salons was not... | |
 | Alice Morse Earle - 1902 - 460 Seiten
...everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him whereever he should venture to show it. It is said by learned etymologists that the name of doll for... | |
 | N. Hudson Moore - 1903 - 480 Seiten
...everywhere, have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away as his phiz would...it. It is said by learned etymologists that the name of doll, for the image children play with, is derived from the word idol. From the number of dolls... | |
 | Charles Felton Pidgin - 1904 - 358 Seiten
...incredible. These, with the pictures, busts, and prints (of which copies upon copies are spread everywhere), have made your father's face as well known as that of the moon, so that he durst not do anything that would oblige him to run away, as his phiz would discover him wherever he should venture... | |
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A variety of others have been made since of different sizes; some to be set in the lids of snuff boxes, and some so small as to be worn in rings; and the numbers sold are incredible. These, with the pictures, busts and prints, (of which copies upon copies... 
