 | 1864
...that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character...either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper that discovers itself in the history of his actions. We find too on medals the representations of ladies... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1877
...that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character that authors have given of him, and to try if we can find out in his looks and features either the haughty, cruel, or merciful... | |
 | Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson - 1883
...that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character...either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper that discovers itself in the history of his actions." Alexander the Great. — Among the finest portraits... | |
 | 1883
...that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character...either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper that discovers itself in the history of his actions." Alexander the Great.—Among the finest portraits... | |
 | 1883
...that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character...either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper that discovers itself in the history of his actions." [To be continued.] THE VALUE OF NUMISMATICS. THE following... | |
 | British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals - 1885 - 286 דפים
...that we almoft look upon them as another fpecies. It is an agreeable amufement to compare in our own thoughts the face of a great man with the character...that difcovers itfelf in the hiftory of his actions." Portraits— Among the fineft portraits on Greek coins we 1 Dialogues upon tbe Ufefulnefs of Ancient... | |
 | Bruce Haley - 2003 - 307 דפים
...express what the people depicted were really like. Commenting, however, on his method, which compared "the face of a great man with the character that authors have given him," 7 the historian Gibbon doubted that the soul could often be read in the features without having... | |
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Pompeys, Trajans, and the whole catalogue of heroes, who have many of them so distinguished themselves from the rest of mankind, that we almost look upon them as another species. It is an agreeable amusement to compare in our own thoughts the face of... 
