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" He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face ; and a compass there would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter. "
Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second - Page 442
by Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 546 pages
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe: Containing a ..., Volume 1

Walter Wilson - Authors, English - 1830 - 562 pages
...incendiaries, as he was the first of witnesses." Roger North gives a curious description of his person : " his mouth was the centre of his face, and a compass...would sweep his nose, forehead and chin, within the perimeter. Cave <juo« ipse Deus notavit." • Cunningham's Great Brit. i. 49. F2 agreeable to the...
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Bride of Lammermoor - Peveril of the peak

Walter Scott - 1833 - 474 pages
...described. — " He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face...would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter. Cave quos ipse Deus notavit. In a word, he was a most consummate cheat, blasphemer, vicious,...
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Introductions, and Notes and Illustrations to the Novels, Tales ..., Volume 2

Walter Scott - 1833 - 472 pages
...described. — " He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features vieie Tnas His mouth was the centre of his face ; and a compass...would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter. Cave quos ipse Dens notavit. In a word, he was a most consummate cheat, blasphemer, vicious,...
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The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His ..., Volume 4

Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 846 pages
...thus described.—" He was a low man, of an ill cut, very sborl neck, und his visage and features were + I " ܱ YG v &: N) ~ \+1J^. cumpas* there would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter. Сак укоз уж...
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Historical Parallels, Volume 2

Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 442 pages
...to him*.'' " Gates was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face,...would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin within the perimeter. In a word, he was a most consummate cheat, blasphemer, vicious, perjured, impudent, and...
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Historical parallels [by A.T. Malkin].

Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1846 - 782 pages
...was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. Hi mouth was the centre of his face, and a compass there...would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin within the perimeter. In a word, he was a most consummate cheat, blasphemer, vicious, perjured, impudent, and...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - Great Britain - 1853 - 568 pages
...discovery of the Popish Plot, by Titus Gates and Bedloe, which for a time diffused a universal panic. Gates was the son of an Anabaptist preacher, and had been...lodgings assigned him at Whitehall, with a pension of 1,2001. per annum. He put on an episcopal garb, and was called, or called himself, the saviour of the...
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Waverley Novels ...: Peveril of the peak

Walter Scott - 1853 - 538 pages
...described. — " He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face...would sweep his nose, forehead, and chin, within the perimeter. Caveqtios ipse pent mtfid'tt. In a word, he wus a most consummate cheat, blasphemer, vicious,...
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Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott - 1853 - 752 pages
...described. — -' He was a low man, of an ill cut, very short neck, and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face ; and a compass there woula sweep his nose, forhead, and chin, within the perimeter. Caw qttos ipse Deus notarit. In a word,...
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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1

John Dryden - English poetry - 1854 - 324 pages
...character. 'He was a low man,' says North, 'of an ill-cut very short neck; and his visage and features were most particular. His mouth was the centre of his face,...and a compass there would sweep his nose, forehead. His judgment yet his memory did excel ; Which pieced his wondrous evidence so well, And suited to the...
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