 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 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... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 494 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 sturjendou£ dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 578 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 340 páginas
...Walter the Doubter is almost too well otoSTSk- known to need citation : " He was exerbocker. actly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five...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... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1899 - 1180 páginas
...Killian Van Rensselaer, thepatroon of Albany. Irving has thus sketched this redoubtable governor : " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and...five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect Kphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 356 páginas
...personal appearance of this Walter the Doubter is almost too well to need citation : " He was exeet 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1899 - 268 páginas
...Dutch dollars. In due time came the first Dutch governor, Wouter Van Twiller. Governor Van Twiller was five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference, 34 his figure " the very model of majesty and lordly grandeur." On the very morning after he had entered... | |
 | Lillian Gertrude Kimball - 1900 - 266 páginas
...— King. 9. Some years ago I was traveling by railway, no matter whence or whither. — Froude. 10. He was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference. — Irving. 11. Only about three weeks since, there was a leader with this or a similar title. —... | |
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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... 
