 | Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice Baron Fitzmaurice - Great Britain - 1875 - 444 pages
...with him, which continued and confirmed me in all that I have said. He was tall in his person, and as genteel as a martyr to the gout could be, with the...hawk, a little head, thin face, long aquiline nose, and perfectly erect. He was very well bred, and preserved all the manners of the vieille cour, with... | |
 | Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice Baron Fitzmaurice - Great Britain - 1875 - 438 pages
...with him, which continued and confirmed me in all that I have said. He was tall in his person, and as genteel as a martyr to the gout could be, with the...hawk, a little head, thin face, long aquiline nose, and perfectly erect. He was very well bred, and preserved all the manners of the vieille cour, with... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 518 pages
...expected to fascinate a popular assembly.* His figure was tall but * " He was tall in his person, and as genteel as a martyr to the gout could be, with the...hawk, a, little head, thin face, long aquiline nose, and perfectly erect." — Lord Shelburne (Life, by Lord E. Fitzmaurice, i. 77). graceful, his eye shone... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1878 - 516 pages
...assembly.* His figure was tall but * " He was tall in his person, and as genteel as a martyr to the gont could be, with the eye of a hawk, a little head, thin face, long aquiline nose, and perfectly erect." — Lord Shelburne (Life, by Lord E. Fitzmanrice, i. 77). 154 PITT IN PARLIAMENT.... | |
 | Frederick York Powell, Thomas Frederick Tout - Great Britain - 1908 - 394 pages
...Sarum. His thunders against Walpole first brought him into notice. " His person was tall and imposing, with the eye of a hawk, a little head, thin face, long aquiline nose, and perfectly erect posture ; his action was most expressive ; his invectives were uttered with such... | |
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... conversation out of the way of business. I went to see him afterwards in Somersetshire, where I fell into more familiar habits with him, which continued and confirmed me in all that I have said. He was tall in his person, and as genteel as a martyr... 