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" ... said that he had set about it several times, but there was something so unfortunate in the features of the face, that he was shocked every time that he examined it, and forced to leave off his work; and if there was any stress to be laid upon physiognomy,... "
The Life of James, Duke of Ormond: Containing an Account of the Most ... - Page 410
by Thomas Carte - 1851
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Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of ...

Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - Genealogy - 1850 - 610 pages
...by the Cardinal Protector of the English nation, who pressed him to make a good one with dispatch. Bernini was unaccountably dilatory in the work ; the...immediately to his house at Chelsea. It was brought thither, placed upon a table in the garden, whither the King went, with a train of nobility about him, to take...
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Irish archaeological and Celtic society - Ireland - 1850 - 610 pages
...by the Cardinal Protector of the English nation, who pressed him to make a good one with dispatch. Bernini was unaccountably dilatory in the work; the...immediately to his house at Chelsea. It was brought thither, placed upon a table in the garden, whither the King went, with a train of nobility about him, to take...
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Macariae Excidium, Or, The Destruction of Cyprus: Being a Secret History of ...

Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - Genealogy - 1850 - 614 pages
...wondering how he could be so tedious in making the bust of so great a prince, the other said that hehad set about it several times, but there was something...immediately to his house at Chelsea. It was brought thither, placed upon a table in the garden, whither the King went, with a train of nobility about him, to take...
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Irish archaeological and Celtic society - Ireland - 1850 - 612 pages
...making the bust of so great a prince, the other said that hehad set about it several times, butthere was something so unfortunate in the features of the...immediately to his house at Chelsea. It was brought thither, placed upon a table in the garden, whither the King went, with a train of nobility about him, to take...
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Things Not Generally Known: Curiosities of History

John Timbs - History - 1858 - 272 pages
...forced to leave off the work ; and, if there was any stress to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined...finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the river, the king, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it...
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Sir Ewain, Or, The Giant's Cave: A Holy Moral

Beilby Porteus - English poetry - 1860 - 242 pages
...and forced to leave off the work; and, if tbere was any stress to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined...finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the river, the king, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it...
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Predictions Realized in Modern Times

John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1862 - 360 pages
...forced to leave off the work ; and, if there was any- stress to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined...finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the river, the king, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it...
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Romance of London: Strange Stories, Scenes and Remarkable Persons ..., Volume 1

John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 372 pages
...forced to leave off the work ; and, if there was any stress to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined...finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the river, the King, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it...
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Omens and Superstitions: Curious Facts and Illustrative Sketches

Omens - Omens - 1868 - 210 pages
...forced to leave off the work ; observing, that if any stress was to be laid on physiognomy, he was sure the person whom the picture represented was destined...finished, and sent to England. As soon as the ship that brought it arrived in the Thames, the King, who was very impatient to see the bust, ordered it...
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The Other World: Or, Glimpses of the Supernatural. Being Facts ..., Volume 1

Frederick George Lee - Spiritualism - 1875 - 316 pages
...something so unusually sad and melancholy in the royal features, that if any stress might be laid on physiognomy, he was sure that the person whom the picture represented was destined for a violent end. When the bust arrived in England, the King being anxious to see it, it was taken...
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