 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 392 páginas
...and Tough Breeches, of the Pipe Plot, of the Mosquito War, of the renowned Wouter van Twiller, who was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference, of his unparalleled virtues and literally unutterable wisdom, of how he fell into a profound doubt... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1901 - 390 páginas
...and Tough Breeches, of the Pipe Plot, of the Mosquito War, of the renowned "Wouter van Twiller, who was exactly five feet six inches in height and six feet five inches in circumference, of his unparalleled virtues and literally unutterable wisdom, of how he fell into a profound doubt... | |
 | Julia Maria Colton - 1901 - 298 páginas
...greetings. Van Twiller's personality was not impressive ; Irving's vivid picture portrays him as " exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference," but perhaps a portrait more nearly exact may be conceived by the aid of contemporary testimony, which... | |
 | 1902 - 424 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 six feet five inches in circumference. 6. His head was a perfect sphere, and of such stupendous dimensions that Dame Nature, with all her... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 394 páginas
...too well known to need citation : " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and HU portrait, 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... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1902 - 562 páginas
...the famous description by Knickerbocker : " He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and iix. 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 seen puzzled... | |
 | Thomas Lansing Masson, Thomas L. Masson - 1903 - 216 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 - 1903 - 406 páginas
...Doubter is almost too well , H1s porknown to need citation : "He was exactly five feet trait, b>- the six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and bocker of such stupendous dimensions, that Dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1904 - 462 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... | |
 | Jacques Wardlaw Redway - 1904 - 274 páginas
...governor in Minuit's place. This clerk was Wouter Van Twiller, and of him Father Knickerbocker says, "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... | |
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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... 
