He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 3951846Full view - About this book
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 892 pages
...of his appearance. "He was very big, his hair red, hanging oddly about him. His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his -whole manner was very unfit for a court." MAITLAND, SAMUEL HOFFET, DD, 1793-1866; b. London; studied at Trinity college,... | |
| John Mackay Wilson - 1881 - 748 pages
...very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which madt him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court." This character is borne out by the portraits of the Duke, one of which... | |
| John Mackay Wilson - 1884 - 404 pages
...Burnet wrote: — "He was very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. " This character is borne out by the portraits of the Duke. one of which... | |
| James Taylor - Covenanters - 1887 - 224 pages
...unprepossessing. " He was very big," says Burnet, " his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to, and his whole manner was rough and boisterous." When Lauderdale was entrusted with the government of Scotland, the office of Justice Clerk and the... | |
| Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 366 pages
...reason there will not fall out much of action to be historically related, I may be intongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to." — (Surnet's Own Time, vol. ip 162.) 1 He died on the 4th May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster... | |
| Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 388 pages
...reason there will not fall out much of action to be historically related, I may be intongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to."— (Bwrnet's Own Time, vol. ip 162.) 1 He died on the 4th May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster Abbey... | |
| J. Tait - Borders (Scotland) - 1891 - 376 pages
...Bishop Burnet writes:—" He was very big; his hair red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough, boisterous, and very unfit for a court." In Scotland he was absolutely detested; and is now remembered... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...ill appearance: he was very big: his hair was red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was toq_big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1150 pages
...of his appearance, "lie was very big, liis hair red, hanging oddly about him. His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was very unfit for a court." MAITLAHD, SAMUEL ROFKEY, DD, 1792-1866; b. London; studied at Trinity college,... | |
| Alexander Smellie - Covenanters - 1904 - 556 pages
...Bishop Burnet says ; " he was very big ; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous." His portrait, although Lely's consummate art has done for it everything which could be done, attests... | |
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