 | 1895 - 822 sivua
...by one of the projectors, before he had learned either his name or his business: " I was struck by the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest,...of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye." He engaged in the service of this company with great enthusiasm, and sailed from London, June, 1788;... | |
 | Sir Clements Robert Markham - 1895 - 282 sivua
...proposed to him to take service under the African Association. Sir Joseph sent Ledyard to Mr. Beaufoy, who was " struck with the manliness of his person, the...of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye." Spreading a map of Africa before him, Mr. Beaufoy drew a line from Cairo to Senaar, and thence westward... | |
 | 1817 - 600 sivua
...inquisitive and adventurous, unsubdued by difficulties and uuappalled by dangers. He was particularly struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth...his chest, the openness of his countenance and the mquietude of his eye ; his iigure, scarcely above the middle size, expressed great strength and activity.... | |
 | James Zug - 2009 - 314 sivua
...Beaufoy's home. "Before I learnt from the note the name and business of my Visitor," wrote Beaufoy in 1790, "I was struck with the manliness of his person, the...of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye." After introductions they went into Beaufoy's parlor to look at maps of Africa. Ledyard told him of... | |
 | Edward G. Gray - 2008 - 238 sivua
...traveler: "[Even before reading Banks's letter testifying to Ledyard's fitness for the expedition,] I was struck with the manliness of his person, the...of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye." After all those years of working to perfect that gentlemanly art of manufactured persona, it would... | |
 | Michael B. Oren - 2007 - 848 sivua
...attention of the prestigious African Society and of its flamboyant secretary, Henry Beaufoy. Impressed with the "manliness of his person, the breadth of...openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eyes," Beaufoy proposed that Ledyard probe the length of the Nile, from Cairo to Sennar in the eastern... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 620 sivua
...introduction from Sir Joseph Banks. The interview is best described io the language of Mr Beaufoy himself. ' " Before I had learned from the note the name and business...Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that... | |
 | 1828 - 684 sivua
...name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of hia chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude...Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction of the Niger, I told him, that... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 sivua
...note, the name and business of my visiter," says the Secretary, (Mr. Beaufoy,) in an official report, " I was struck with the manliness of his person, the...of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye." Being asked when he would set out — "to-morrow morning" — W-^s his answer. His biographer dwells... | |
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I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye. 
