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 442by Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1846 - 546 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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