 | Washington Irving - 1884 - 472 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, far excelling in magnitude that of the great Pericles (who was thence waggishly called Schenocephalus,... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1885 - 202 páginas
...been molded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1886 - 328 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | 1886 - 332 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1888 - 542 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His heud was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1888 - 668 páginas
...character, and conduct. Washington Irving, in a pleasant pen caricature of him, described his person as " exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference ;" his head " a perfect sphere ;" " his face a vast expanse, unfurrowed by any of those lines and angles which... | |
 | 1888 - 272 páginas
..." Key ? " THE DUTCH GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. (Vol. VI, p. 236.) That Dutch governor inquired for, who was " exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference," was the renowned Wouter (or Walter) Van Twiller. This surname Twiller is said to be a corruption of... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1890 - 521 páginas
...Van Twiller,"—the name^provokes a smile as one recalls the famous description by Knickerbocker : " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 304 páginas
...made as plain as a pikestaff, he would exclaim, " Well, I see nothing in all that to laugh about." He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. His body was oblong and particularly capacious at bottom." His face presented a vast expanse, unfurrowed... | |
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He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled to construct a neck capable... 
