 He is very much ripened in his abilities, which are really considerable, and has acquired a great store of knowledge Mirabeau is as overbearing in his conversation as awkward in his graces, as ugly and misshapen in face and person, as dirty in his dress,...  A Memoir of the Right Honourable Hugh Elliot - Side 273af Emma Eleanor Elizabeth Hislop Elliot-Murray Kynynmoumd Countess of Minto - 1868 - 436 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1869 - 826 sider
...amusing account of their old schoolfellow, which Sir Gilbert wrote to his brother Hugh : — " I wag lately agreeably surprised by a note dated Hatton...overbearing in his conversation as awkward in his grace, as ugly and misshapen in face and person, as dirty in his dress, and withal as perfectly suffisant,... | |
 | Paul Ferdinand Willert - 1898 - 248 sider
...London. " I was agreeably surprised by a visit from our old and 0 persecuted schoolfellow Mirabeau. I found him as ardent a friend as I left him and as...consumed in prison and the rest in personal and domestic trouble. He is as overbearing in his conversation, as awkward in his graces, as ugly and as misshapen... | |
 | Charles Franklin Warwick - 1908 - 530 sider
...ended : " I was agreeably surprised by a visit from our old and persecuted school-fellow, Mirabeau. I found him as ardent a friend as I left him and as...consumed in prison and the rest in personal and domestic trouble. He is as overbearing in his conversation, as awkward in his graces, as ugly and as misshapen... | |
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