... 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
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 654 pages
...indeed, or " impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demea" nour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, " and mild self-possession in his manner, than we ever recol" lect to have met with in any other person. He had in his " character the utmost abhorrence for... | |
 | Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pages
...in his demeanour : and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild eelf-possrssion in his manner, than we ever recollect to have met...pretensions; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his tenguage and deportment.... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 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...manner, than we ever recollect to have met with in аду other person. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade,... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 pages
...the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. * * * He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 270 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...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance by the manly plainness... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 540 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...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance by the manly plainness... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...have met in any other person. He had the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, or pretensions, and indeed never failed to put all such...countenance by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of hia language and deportment. THOMAS DE QUINCEY. THOMAS DE QUINCEY (born AD 1786) wag one of the most... | |
 | 1899 - 206 pages
...effort, indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanor; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength and mild self-possession...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostures out of countenance by the manly plainness... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 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...impostures out of countenance by the manly plainness of his language. In his temper and dispositions he was not only kind and affectionate, but generous... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1910 - 402 pages
...indeed , or of impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanor; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and indeed never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness... | |
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