 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...face and make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions ; that he had something rather languid in his look and manner,...any great expectation in those who did not know him. His temper, it is said, was so equal and mild, that no accident could disturb it ; a remarkable instance... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...lost but one tooth during his whole life. Bishop Atterbury says, that in the whole air of Sir Isaac's face and make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions; that he had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 358 pages
...one tooth during his whole life. Bishop Atterbury says, that in the whole air of Sir Isaac's face mid make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions , that he had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...distinguish a man of genius by his countenance. In a letter of Bishop Atterbury to M. Thiriot, he says, " in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his works. He had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...distinguish a man of genius by his countenance. In a letter of Bishop Atterbury to M. Thiriot, he says, " in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his works. He had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Logic - 1827 - 414 pages
...at least not " for twenty years past, about which time I first became ac" quainted with him ; indeed in the whole air of his face and " make, there was...of that penetrating sagacity which "appears in his works. He had something rather languid in. "his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectations... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 524 pages
...him, at least not for twenty years past, about which time I first became acquainted with him ; indeed in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his works. tie had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectations... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...other hand, that the lively and piercing eye did not belong to Sir Isaac during the last twenty years of his life. " Indeed," says he, " in the whole air...Atterbury is confirmed by an observation of Mr. Thomas * The following anecdote of Sir Isaac's absence has been published, buj I cannot vouch for its authenticity.... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Lincolnshire (England) - 1834 - 430 pages
...lost but one tooth during his whole life. Bishop Atterbury says, that in the whole air of Sir Isaac's face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions; that he had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...other hand, that the lively and piercing eye did not belong to Sir Isaac during the last twenty years of his life. " Indeed," says he, " in the whole air...Atterbury is confirmed by an observation of Mr. Thomas * The following anecdote of Sir Isaac's absence has been published, but I cannot vouch for its authenticity.... | |
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Bishop Atterbury asserts, on the other hand, that the lively and piercing eye did not belong to Sir Isaac during the last twenty years of his life. " Indeed," says he, " in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity... 
