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" ... and affable to all men that his face and countenance was always present and vacant to his company, and held any cloudiness and less pleasantness of the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable, and thence very... "
The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 341
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ...

1798 - 560 pages
...ail men, became on a fudden lefs communicable, fad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the fpleen. In his clothes and habit, which he had minded before always with more ncatnefs and induftry and expence than is ufual to fo great a fm.l, he was now not only incurious,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable; and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....expence, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent; and in his reception of suitors, and the necessary or casual...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable; and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....expence, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent; and in his reception of suitors, and the necessary or casual...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...sudden less communicable; and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen. In hi$ clothes and habit, which he had minded before always...expence, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent; and in his reception of suitors, and the necessary or casual...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable; and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....before always with more neatness and industry and expense, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent ; and in...
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The Plain Englishman [ed. by C. Knight and E.H. Locker]., Volume 1

Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...visage, a kind of rudeness or incivility, became, on a sudden, less communicable ; and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....expence, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent : and in his reception of suitors, and the necessary, or...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...the visage, a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable ; and thence very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....before always with more neatness, and industry, and expense than is usual in so great a soul, he was now not only incurious, but too negligent ; and in...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which ..., Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 662 pages
...visage, a kind of rudeness or incivility, became, on a sudden, less communicable ; and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen. In his clothes and habit, which he had minded c before always with more neatness, and industry, and expense, than is usual to so great a soul, d...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 1

1831 - 626 pages
...visage, a kind of rudeness and incivility, — became on a sudden less communicable; and thence very aad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen. In his clothes and habit, which he minded before with more neatness, and industry, and expence, than is usual to so great a soul, he was...
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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Volume 6

Edmund Lodge - 1835 - 326 pages
...the visage a kind of rudeness or incivility, became on a sudden less communicable, and thence, very sad, pale, and exceedingly affected with the spleen....before always with more neatness, and industry, and expense, than is usual to so great a soul, he was not now only incurious, but too negligent ; and in...
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