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" As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion ; that amorphous, crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite... "
The Last Harvest - Seite 61
von John Burroughs - 1922 - 294 Seiten
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Life of Daniel Webster, Band 2

George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 764 Seiten
...might say to all the world, ' This is our Yankee Englishman ; such limbs we make in Yankee-land 1 ' As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules,...amorphous craglike face ; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be Itown ; the mastiff mouth,...
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Life of Daniel Webster, Band 2

George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 766 Seiten
...the world, ' This is our Yankee Englishman ; such limbs we make in Yankee-land ! ' As a logie-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline...amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth,...
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Life of Daniel Webster, Band 2

George Ticknor Curtis - 1870 - 762 Seiten
...limbs we make in Yankee-land ! ' As a logic-fencer, advocate, or parliamentary Hercules, one wonld incline to back him at first sight against all the...amorphous craglike face; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blotcn ; the mastiff mouth,...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 Seiten
...his appearance, deportment, and conversation." To Carlyle, he was "a magnificent specimen " : "as a parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world." Mr. John Kunyon travelled with him four days. Writing to Mr. George Ticknor, of Boston, in 1853, he...
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The Literary World, Band 10

1879 - 360 Seiten
...Thomas Carlyle, on seeinghim in London, pronounced him "a magnificent specimen," and declared that "as a parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world." Mr. Whipple's essay is both worthy of the subject and well suited to the occasion ; a vigorous and...
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Webster Centennial: A Discourse Delivered on the Hundredth Anniversary of ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 102 Seiten
...and conversation." Carlyle pronounced him " a magnificent specimen " ; adding, withal, that, "as a parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world." Mr. John Kenyon travelled with him four days. Writing, in 1853, to Mr. George Ticknor, of Boston, he...
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From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of ...

Horatio Alger - 1882 - 336 Seiten
...logic-fencer, advocate or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face, the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows [I am sure no one ever called Mr. Webster's eyes dull before or since], like...
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Daniel Webster

Henry Cabot Lodge - 1883 - 526 Seiten
...the world, ' This is our Yankee Englishman ; such limbs we make in Yankee land !' As a logic fencer, or parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back...amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under the precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth...
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The Webster Centennial: Proceedings of the Webster Historical Society at ...

Webster Historical Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1883 - 314 Seiten
...all the world, Ihisisyonr Yaukee Euglisbman, aucn Liinbi tie make In Yaukeelaiiu! As a Losic-feucar, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all tlie extaut world. The tanned oomjlexion, that amorphous crag-like lace; tbe dull bhvk eyes uuder their...
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The New England Magazine, Band 26;Band 32

1902 - 854 Seiten
...the world — 'This is our Yankee Englishman: such limbs we make in Yankee land.' "As a logic fencer advocate or parliamentary Hercules one would incline...amorphous, craglike face; the dull black eyes under a precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces needing only to be blown ; the mastiff mouth, accurately...
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