 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...had a piercing eye, at least during his last twenty years when he was acquainted with him. "Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his composures. He had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 348 pages
...piercing eye."1 Since, however, Bishop Atterbury gave quite the opposite description ("In the whole of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions. . . . "), we mention this description, not to suggest that it was accurate in itself, but to remind... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
...'at least, says he, not for twenty years past, about which time 1 became acquainted with him. 1ndeed in the whole air of his face and make there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity, which appears in his composures. He had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | Patricia Fara - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 400 pages
...for posterity. The Bishop of Rochester, who knew Newton for twenty years, remarked to a friend that 'in the whole air of his face and make, there was...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his composures'.7 As the Bishop realized, painters emphasize different characteristics to convey a sitter's... | |
 | Ioan James - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 420 pages
...baldness, and when his peruke was off he was a venerable sight. However, others said: and In the whole of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his compositions; he has something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation in those... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...him, at lead not for twenty years pall, about which time I firft became acquainted with him. Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing of that penetrating iagacity which appears in his works. He had fomething rather languid in his look and manner, which... | |
 | Milo Keynes - Art - 2005 - 164 pages
...obviously the remark of Bishop Atterbury (1662-1732)2 about Newton in his last years is suggested: 'Indeed, in the whole air of his face and make, there was nothing...of that penetrating sagacity which appears in his composures. He had something rather languid in his look and manner, which did not raise any great expectation... | |
 | 1855 - 804 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 Ilearne, who says, ' that Sir Isaac was a man of no very promising aspect. He was a short well-set... | |
 | Great Britain - 1856 - 844 pages
...Atterbury says that his eye, during the last twenty ymrs of his life, could not be so characterised ; that he had " something rather languid in his look and...great expectation in those who did not know him." With nil the little jealousies into which controversy irritated Newton, he had undoubtedly the modesty... | |
 | Great Britain - 1922 - 1406 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... 
