 ... theories by which a philosopher would have perplexed his brain, in accounting for its rising above the surrounding atmosphere. " In his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated...  The Edinburgh Monthly Review - Page 2431821Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 310 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1819 - 302 pages
...chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced Tim merman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber, which... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 538 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...conclusion of a treaty with one of the petty Barbary powers.—In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent pipe would he smoke, shaking his... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1820 - 556 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...to a stadtholder of Holland, at the conclusion of a treatv with one w of the petty Barbary powers. — In this stately chair would he sit, and this magnificent... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1821 - 414 pages
...chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced Tunmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber,... | |
 | George Lockhart - Jacobites - 1824 - 870 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (State) - 1824 - 318 pages
...chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced timrnerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle'? HIS BEHAVIOUR IN THE »ODJfCtL. claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - American wit and humor - 1825 - 356 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a hnge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wronght with jasmin and amber,... | |
 | Washington Irving - New York (N.Y.) - 1826 - 452 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagle's * HIS BEHAVIOUR IN THE COUNCIL. 165 claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak, hewn in the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic eagles' claws. Instead of a sceptre, he swayed a long Turkish pipe, wrought with jasmin and amber,... | |
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