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" he had a very lively and piercing eye, a comely and gracious aspect, with a fine head of hair as white as silver, without any baldness, and when his peruke was off was a venerable sight. "
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 303
por David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginas
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The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General ..., Volumen12

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....
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The English Nation; Or, A History of England in the Lives of ..., Volumen3

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...
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Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of ..., Volúmenes3-7

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,...
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THE AMERICAN CYCLOPAEDIA: A Popular Dictionary of GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.

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....
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The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volumen12

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....
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Heroes of Science: Astronomers

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...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volumen85

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...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volumen85

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...
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Portraits in Plaster: From the Collection of Laurence Hutton

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...
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Historical Portraits: Some Notes on the Painted Portraits of Celebrated ...

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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