 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 966 pages
...duke of Buckingham called a " blundering understanding." Burnet has also given us a picture of his appearance. " He was very big, his hair red, hanging...too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that ho talked to; and his whole manner was very unfit for a court." MAITLAND. SAMTJEL ROFFEY, DD, 1792-1866;... | |
 | Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 366 pages
...for which reason there will not fall out much of action to be historically related, I may be intongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to." โ (Surnet's Own Time, vol. ip 162.) 1 He died on the 4th May, 1677, and was buried in Westminster... | |
 | Roger North - Lawyers - 1890 - 388 pages
...the 1 This was during the summer of 1676. See Cooper's Annals of Cam bridge, vol. iii. p. 573. 3 " He was very big ; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his orator with an advantage in eloquence as himself had in figure, those who saw and heard both may determine.... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Great Britain - 1893 - 458 pages
...56.(0 His widow d. 12 May 1742, aged about 80, at Hawthornden. (ยป) Bishop Burnet says of him " ho wan very big ; his hair red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth." (b) He is often said to have been cr. ั Baronet [S], 12 May 1672, but this creation (made to heirs... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 838 pages
...with what the Duke of Buckingham called a ' blundering understanding.'. Burnet gives a picture of his appearance: ' He was very big, his hair red, hanging...His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedevv all that he talked to; and his whole manner was very unfit for a court.' MAIT'LAXD, Sir RICHARD... | |
 | Cyril Brett - Great Britain - 1910 - 392 pages
...Buckingham in everything save morals ; " he made a very ill-appearance ; he was very big, his hair was red, hanging oddly about him ; his tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all he talked to ; and his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a Court. He was very... | |
 | Richard Lodge - Great Britain - 1910 - 572 pages
...and to leave behind him an ill-omened and unpopular name. An ugly red face and slobbering tongue, " too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked t0," 2 were redeemed by a ready if rather coarse wit which gave him success as a courtier, and by a... | |
 | Religion - 1917 - 694 pages
...men of his time. Burnet is particular in describing his character and personal appearance: โ "He made a very ill appearance; he was very big, his hair...was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all he talked to, and his whole manner was very rough and boisterous, quite unfit for a Court. " He was... | |
 | Charles Whibley - Statesmen - 1917 - 626 pages
...one man from another, and which graver historians omit. For instance, he tells us that Lauderdale's ' tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all he talked to ' ; that Shaftesbury ' depended much on what a drunken physician had predicted ' ; that... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - Great Britain - 1918 - 398 pages
...that I should be a little copious in setting out his character ; for I knew him very particularly. He made a very ill appearance : He was very big : His hair red, to hanging odly about him : His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he... | |
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He made a very ill appearance : He was very big : His hair red, hanging odly about him : His tongue was too big for his mouth, which made him bedew all that he talked to: And his whole manner was rough and boisterous, and very unfit for a Court. 
