 | 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1828 - 638 sivua
...learnt from the note the name and business of my visiter, I was struck with the manliness of his perton, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance,...Africa before him, and tracing a line from Cairo to Sennaar, and from thence westward in the latitude and supposed direction .of the Niger, I told him,... | |
 | 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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Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, 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. 
