 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 páginas
...in all that to laugh abont." some cuuning Duteh 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 snch stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingeunity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of somo 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 • •••!( stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex'* ingenuity, would have been... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 páginas
...been moulded by the hands of some cunning Duteh 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 «uch stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex's ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 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, thab dame Nature, with all her sex'a ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 páginas
...moulded by the hands of some cunning Dutch statuary, as a model of majesty and lordly grandeur. Ue was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six...circumference. His head was a perfect sphere, and of 'Uch stupendous dimensions, that dame Nature, with all her sex 'a ingenuity, would have been puzzled... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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 " the onion-head... | |
 | Charles Adams - 1870 - 322 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 to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1871 - 684 páginas
...that a fine lady would accord in appearance with the Dutch governor described by Irving as being " five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in breadth." § 12. The details given by cotemporary writers of the licentiousness of the court and nobility... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1872 - 910 páginas
...Rensselaer, the patroon of Albany. Irving has given us the following admirable portrait of him : " 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... | |
 | James D. McCabe - 1874 - 974 páginas
...Killiau Van Jlensselaer, the patroon of Albany. Irving has thus sketched this redoubtable governor: "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... 
