 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...each ; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller — a true philosopher, for his mind wag either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. ' His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty. . , ' With burghers whose minds seemed all to have been cast in one mould; and to... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a spiteenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller — a true philosopher, for his mind was... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a spitzenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller — a true philosopher, for his mind was... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 538 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...four-and-twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller—a true philosopher; for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below,... | |
 | 1821 - 732 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...eight hours ; and he slept the remaining twelve of the four and twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller, a true philosopher ; for his mind was either... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. His hahits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated ahove, or tranquilly settled below, the cares and perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 404 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...four-and-twenty. Such was the renowned Wouter Van Twiller—a true philosopher, for his mind was either elevated above, or tranquilly settled below the... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1828 - 354 pages
...streaked with dusky reil, like a Spitzenherg apple. His hahits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each ; he smoked and douhted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the fonr-and-twenty. Such was the renowned... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1829 - 292 pages
...streaked with dusky red, like a Spitzenberg apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly...perplexities of this world. He had lived in it for 150 HIS BEHAVIOUR IN THE COUNCIL. years, without feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun... | |
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... apple. His habits were as regular as his person. He daily took his four stated meals, appropriating exactly an hour to each; he smoked and doubted eight hours, and he slept the remaining twelve of the four-and-twenty. 
