 | Edmund Fillingham King - Physicists - 1858 - 144 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...observation of Mr. Thomas Hearne, who says, " that Sir Isaac was a man of no very promising aspect. He was a short well-set man. He was full of thought and spoke... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 856 pages
...of his death. Bishop Atterbury, speaking of the last 20 years of his life, says : " He had something languid in his look and manner, which did not raise...great expectation in those who did not know him." "He spoke very little in company," observes Mr. Thomas Hearne, "so that his conversation was not agreeable."... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 794 pages
...Bishop Attertrary, speaking of the last 20 years of hie life, says : " He had something languid in hie look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation in those who did not know him." "He spoke very little in company," observes Mr. Thomas Hearne, "so that his conversation was not agreeable."... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...I shall leave you an estate,' which he then for the first time mentioned." Says Bishop Atterbury, " In the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectations in those who did not know him." When Pope expressed a wish for " some memoirs and character... | |
 | Laurence Hutton - Masks (Sculpture). - 1894 - 302 pages
...of his teeth ;" and that " his countenance was mild, pleasant, and comely." Bishop Atterbury said, "in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any very great expectation in those who did not know him;" and Dr. Humphrey Newton, who was his assistant... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1897 - 442 pages
...and gracious aspect, with a fine head of hair as white as silver," while Bishop Atterbury wrote: " In the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions." Mr. RT Glazebrook, FRS, has given at the end of his valuable life of Newton in the " Dictionary of... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - Great Britain - 1897 - 432 pages
...comely and gracious aspect, with a fine head of hair as white as silver," while Bishop Atterbury wrote : "In the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions." Mr. RT Glazebrook, FRS, has given at the end of his valuable life of Newton in the " Dictionary of... | |
 | Leslie Stephen, Sir Sidney Lee - Great Britain - 1894 - 470 pages
...white as silver." Bishop Atterbury, however, does not altogether agree with this. ' Indeed," he says, ' in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...sagacity which appears in his compositions." ' He never wore spectacles," says Hearne, ' and never lost more than one tooth to the day of his death.'... | |
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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... 
