| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 794 páginas
...was of medium stature, and in the latter part of his life inclined to corpulency. In old age he had a fine head of hair, as white as silver, without any baldness. He never wore spectacles, and it is stated never lost more than one tooth to the day of his death.... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 páginas
...any regimen in his diet, proceeds — " He was of a middle stature, and plump in his latter years ; he had a very lively and piercing eye, a comely and gracious aspect, and a tine head of hair, as white as silver, without any baldness ; and, when his peruke was off, was... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester - 1864 - 1170 páginas
...at * Mr. Conduit, Newton's nephew by marriage, when describing Newton's personal appearance, says, " With a fine head of hair as white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was oil', was a venerable sight." — Brewster's Life of Newton, 1855, vol. ii., p. 413. Hurstbourne Park,... | |
| 1875 - 846 páginas
...was of medium stature, and in the latter part of his life inclined to corpulency. In old age he had a fine head of hair, as white as silver, without any baldness. He never wore spectacles, and it is said he never lost more than one tooth to the day of his death.... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1875 - 860 páginas
...was of medium stature, and in the latter part of his life inclined to corpulency. In old age he had a fine head of hair, as white as silver, without any baldness. He never wore spectacles, and it is said he never lost more than one tooth to the day of his death.... | |
| Edward John Chalmers Morton - 1882 - 370 páginas
...'Principia' were received with the utmost goodness." Mr. Conduitt describes his appearance in these days. " He had a very lively and piercing eye, a comely and...and, when his peruke was off, was a venerable sight." * Quoted from the Conduitt MSS., in Brewster's "Memoirs of Newton," ii. 406. Up to the very last Newton... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 1142 páginas
...inclined to be corpulent"; that "he had a very lively and piercing eye": that "his hair was abundant and white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was off was a venerable sight"; that "he was a man of no very prominent aspect"; that "his face was almost square, and that his chin... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1892 - 988 páginas
...inclined to be corpulent''; that "he had a very lively and piercing eye": that "his hair was abundant and white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was off was a venerable sight"; that "lie was a man of no very prominent aspect"; that "his face was almost square, and that his chin... | |
| Laurence Hutton - 1894 - 302 páginas
...inclined to be corpulent;" that "he had a very lively and piercing eye ;" that " his hair was abundant and white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was off was a venerable sight ;" that " he was a man of no very prominent aspect ;" that " his face was almost square, and that his... | |
| Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1897 - 442 páginas
...his personal appearance by those who knew him — thus his colleague and connection, Conduitt, said " he had a very lively and piercing eye, a comely and...aspect, with a fine head of hair as white as silver," while Bishop Atterbury wrote: " In the whole air of his face and make there was nothing of that penetrating... | |
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