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" He made a very ill appearance : he was very big : his hair red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. "
The Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 400
1846
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Lay Sermons

John Stuart Blackie - 1881 - 410 pages
...his hair red, 1 See the details in Dodds, chap. vi. hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to ; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court." The hint here given is taken up by Dodds, who, in the pages of his noble...
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Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880 ..., Volume 9

1881 - 892 pages
...of his appearance. "He was very big, his hair red, hanging oddly about him. His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his -whole manner was very unfit for a court." MAITLAND, SAMUEL HOFFET, DD, 1793-1866; b. London; studied at Trinity college,...
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders, selected and ed. with biogr. notices of the ...

John Mackay Wilson - 1881 - 748 pages
...very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which madt him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court." This character is borne out by the portraits of the Duke, one of which...
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders. With illustr. scenes and incidents ..., Volume 1

John Mackay Wilson - 1884 - 402 pages
...Burnet wrote: — "He was very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. " This character is borne out by the portraits of the Duke. one of which...
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The Scottish covenanters

James Taylor - 1887 - 224 pages
...unprepossessing. " He was very big," says Burnet, " his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to, and his whole manner was rough and boisterous." When Lauderdale was entrusted with the government of Scotland, the office of Justice Clerk and the...
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The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North: Baron Guilford; the Hon ..., Volume 2

Roger North - 1890 - 366 pages
...reason there will not fall out much of action to be historically related, I may be intongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to." — (Surnet's Own Time, vol. ip 162.) 1 He died on the 4th May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster...
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The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North: Baron Guilford; the Hon ..., Volume 2

Roger North - 1890 - 388 pages
...reason there will not fall out much of action to be historically related, I may be intongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to."— (Bwrnet's Own Time, vol. ip 162.) 1 He died on the 4th May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster Abbey...
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Two Centuries of Border Church Life: With Biographies of Leading ..., Volume 2

J. Tait - 1891 - 376 pages
...Bishop Burnet writes:—" He was very big; his hair red, hanging oddly about him; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was rough, boisterous, and very unfit for a court." In Scotland he was absolutely detested; and is now remembered...
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Burnet's History of My Own Time: A New Edition, Based on that of M. J. Routh ...

Gilbert Burnet - 1897 - 666 pages
...ill appearance: he was very big: his hair was red, hanging oddly about him : his tongue was toq_big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked...to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a court. He was very learned, not only in Latin, in which he was a master, but in...
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The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev ..., Volume 9

Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 1152 pages
...of his appearance, "lie was very big, liis hair red, hanging oddly about him. His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to; and his whole manner was very unfit for a court." MAITLAHD, SAMUEL ROFKEY, DD, 1792-1866; b. London; studied at Trinity college,...
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