 a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin; his dress singular, his manners and deportment those of a rough backwoodsman.  The Life and Times of Aaron Burr - Page 21by James Parton - 1877Full view - About this book
 | William Graham Sumner - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 520 pages
...Congress, I. 485-532. 2 See p. 11, n. 1. hold, in 1794. Gallatin recalled him years afterwards as " a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin ; his dress singular, his manners and deportment that of a rough... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 562 pages
..." a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin ; his dress singular, his manners and deportment that of a rough backwoodsman." 1 Jefferson said of him, in 1824 : " When I was President of the Senate... | |
 | American literature - 1884 - 990 pages
...him as "a tall, lank, uncouth -looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his brows and face, and a queue down his back tied in an eel-skin...dress singular, his manners and deportment those of a backwoodsman." He remained, however, but a year or two in all at Philadelphia — then the seat of... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - 1900 - 174 pages
...of manner. Another leading Republican of the time, Albert Gallatin, recalled Jackson afterwards as " a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin ; his dress singular, his manners and deportment that of a rough... | |
 | Alfred Henry Lewis - New York (N.Y.) - 1901 - 436 pages
...taking his first step in affairs. Speaking of the latter, Gallatin remembers him of that time, " as a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long...hanging over his face, and a queue down his back tied with an eel-skin; his dress singular, his manners and deportment those of a rough backwoodsman." Poor... | |
 | Anne Hollingsworth Wharton - Washington (D.C.) - 1902 - 412 pages
...Philadelphia as Senator from Tennessee, Jackson, then about thirty, was described by Mr. Gallatin as " a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin; his dress singular, his manners and deportment that of a backwoodsman."... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton, John Lord - United States - 1903 - 532 pages
...representative from that State in the House. He was then described by a contemporary, " as having been a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue down his back tied in an eel-skin ; his dress singular, his manners and deportment that of a rough... | |
 | Edward Channing - History - 1903 - 292 pages
...business as a lawyer compelled him to travel from court to court along the border. In this way this tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a cue l down his back, tied in an eelskin, became known in all the western part of Tennessee, and so... | |
 | Arthur St. Clair Colyar - United States - 1904 - 456 pages
...Albert Gallatin describes him, when he first saw him as the member from "the new State of Tennessee," as a "tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a que down his back tied with an eel skin; his dress irregular; his manners and deportment those of a... | |
 | Francis Bellamy - Presidents - 1905 - 536 pages
...feelings. I have seen him attempt it repeatedly, and as often choke with rage." Gallatin described him as "a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long...manners and deportment those of a rough backwoodsman." Office was seeking the rough backwoodsman; iipon his return to Tennessee he was made judge of the supreme... | |
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