 | Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - 1824 - 594 pàgines
...discouraged his men. One of them gives the following description of his person and habit: : " His person is tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...than to fill as he grows in years. His countenance is pale, and perhaps he looked more pale by reason of an ague that seized him two days after lie 'came... | |
 | John Blackadder - 1824 - 590 pàgines
...discouraged his men* One of them gives the following description of his person and habits : " His person is tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...than to fill as he grows in years. His countenance is pale, and .perhaps he looked more pale by reason of an ague that seized him two days after he came... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1829 - 350 pàgines
...Perth, he never was once observed to smile. " His person, " says the Master of Sinclair, de-- scribing him as he appeared at Perth, " was tall and thin,...fill as he grows in years. His countenance was pale, bat perhaps looked more so than usual, by reason he had three fits of an ague, which took him two days... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1836 - 672 pàgines
...seem to be truly described by one of the gentlemen who had taken up arms for his cause : " His person was tall and thin, seeming to " incline to be lean...as he grows in " years. His countenance was pale, yet he seems " to be sanguine in his constitution, and has some" thing of a vivacity in his eye that... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1836 - 660 pàgines
...seem to be truly described by one of the gentlemen who had taken up arms for his cause : " His person was tall and thin, seeming to " incline to be lean...as he grows in " years. His countenance was pale, yet he seems " to be sanguine in his constitution, and has some" thing of a vivacity in his eye that... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 622 pàgines
...at Perth, his behaviour while there, and their consequent effects upon his followers. " His person was tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...more so than usual, by reason he had three fits of ague which took him two days after his coining on shore. Yet he seems to be sanguine in his constitution,... | |
 | James Maidment - 1845 - 558 pàgines
...ill, according as into whose hands these Memoirs may happen to fall. However, in brief, his person is tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...than to fill as he grows in years, his countenance is pale, and perhaps he looked more pale by reason he had three fits of an ague, which took him two... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Byerley Thomson - 1845 - 434 pàgines
...his little Court in Lorraine. In person, James is reported by the Master of Sinclair to have been " tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...than to fill as he grows in years." His countenance, to judge by the most authentic portraits* of this Prince, had none of the meditative character of that... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1846 - 346 pàgines
...must inevitably have damped the ardour felt for his cause. " His person," says one of his followers, " was tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...fill as he grows in years. His countenance was pale, yet he seems to be sanguine in his constitution, and has something of a vivacity in his eye that perhaps... | |
 | David Peacock - 1849 - 688 pàgines
...same authority also further depicts his personal appearance, and behaviour while here — " His person was tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather...more so than usual, by reason he had three fits of ague, which took him two days after his coming on shore. Yet he seems to be sanguine in his constitution,... | |
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His person was tall and thin, seeming to incline to be lean rather than to fill as he grows in years. His countenance was pale, yet he seems to be sanguine in his constitution, and has something of a vivacity in his eye that perhaps would have been more... 
