 As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite...  Life of Daniel Webster - Página 21por George Ticknor Curtis - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 466 páginas
...Jove himself. " He is, " said Carlyle, xxi— 764 " a magnificent specimen. . . . As a logic-fencer, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back...him at first sight against all the extant world." "Webster," said Henry Hallam, " approaches as nearly to the beau ideal of a Republican Senator as any... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 páginas
...we make in Yankee land!' As a logic-fencer, advocate, Parliamentary Hercules, one would be inclined to back him, at first sight, against all the extant world, — the grim, tall, yellowskinned man, the crag-like face ; the huge, black, wearied, yet unweariable-looking... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1898 - 462 páginas
...his tribute to him on record. " As a logic fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules," he writes, " one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world." And after describing the " amorphous crag-like face," and the " black eyes under those precipices of... | |
 | George W. F. Birch - 1899 - 270 páginas
...might say to all the world, ' This is your Yankee Englishman ; such limbs we make in Yankee land ! ' As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous, crag-like face; the dull, black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown; the mastiff mouth... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - 1899 - 312 páginas
...you might say to all the world: This is your Yankee Englishman, such limbs we make in Yankee land! As a logic-fencer, advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous crag-like face; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiffmouth,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 318 páginas
...you might say to all the world, This is your Yankee Englishman, such Limbs we make in Yankee-land ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous craglike face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anJ^ 24 CARLYLE AS A LETTER-WRITER thracite furnaces, needing only... | |
 | William Blaikie - 1899 - 586 páginas
...Hercules, one would incline to back Mm at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned completion ; that amorphous, crag-like face ; the dull black eyes...like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff-mouth accurately closed; I have not traced so much of silent Berserker rage that... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 328 páginas
...This is your Yankee Englishman, such limbs we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logicfencer, Advocate, and Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back...amorphous craglike face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 702 páginas
...you might say to all the world, This is your Yankee Englishman, such limbs we make in Yankeeland ! As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules,...back him at first sight against all the extant world. 1 BALZAC. 2 MACAULAY, Bnrleigh and his Times, Essays, Vol. iii, p. 2, 3 See this fact exemplified above,... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1900 - 704 páginas
...MACAULAY, Burleigh and his Times, Essays, Vol. iii, p. 2. 8 See this fact exemplified above, p. 1n. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown ; the mastiff-mouth,... | |
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