 ... observations, and set off to the greatest advantage the pleasant anecdotes which he delivered with the same grave brow and the same calm smile playing soberly on his lips.  James Watt - Page 236by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1823 - 946 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...pretensions ; and indeed never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1819 - 490 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength and mild self-possession...pretensions; and indeed never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...pretensions; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1819 - 770 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild selfpossession...ever recollect to have met with in any other person person. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretensions... | |
 | 1819 - 708 pages
...effort indeed, or im|talieno, any more than of pride or levity, in bn demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild selfpossession...than we ever recollect to have met with in any other 1819.] 465 person. He had in bis character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardin'ss parade,... | |
 | 1820 - 448 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...pretensions ; and, indeed, never failed to put' all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour: and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...pretensions ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1820 - 498 pages
...indeed, or impatience, nny more thai* of pride or levity, in his demeanour : anil there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...pretensions ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...self-possession in his manna1, than we ever recollect to have met witk in any other person. He had in bis character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness,...pretensions ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of bis language and deportment.... | |
 | 1823 - 944 pages
...than of pride or levity, in his demeanour; and there was a finer expression of reposing fttrength, and mild self-possession in his manner, than we ever recollect to have mut with in any other person. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness,... | |
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