 | Washington Irving - 1819 - 310 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague,...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 - 1820 - 538 páginas
...atmosphere. • In his 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,...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 - 1820 - 556 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague,...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 - 1821 - 414 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague, fabricated by an experienced Tunmerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic... | |
 | George Lockhart - 1824 - 870 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague,...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 - 1824 - 572 páginas
...his council he presided with great state and solemnity. He sat in a huge chair of solid oak hewn iu the celebrated forest of the Hague, fabricated by...the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic dttfePs HIS BEHAVIOUR IN THE COUNCIL. 165 claws. Instead of a sceptre he swayed a long Turkish pipe,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 318 páginas
...surrounding atmosphere. In liis 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 timrnerman of Amsterdam, and curiously carved about the arms and feet, into exact imitations of gigantic... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1825 - 356 páginas
...surrounding atmosphere. In his 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,...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 - 1826 - 452 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague,...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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 páginas
...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 forest of the Hague,...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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... his pipe to the ceiling, without once troubling his head with any of those numerous 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... 
