| William Belsham - 1806 - 646 pages
...account transmitted to us of this great monarch by the learned prelate is very curious and amusing. " He is a man of a very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very brutal in his passion. He wants not capacity, and has a larger measure of knowledge than might be expected from his education,... | |
| 1818 - 646 pages
...and constitutions as he was willing to receive. I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him: He is a man of a very hot temper, soon inflamed, and very hrutal in his passion. He raises his natural heat hy drinking much hrandy, which he rectifies himself... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 576 pages
...constitution, as he was willing to receive : I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him; he is a man of a very hot temper, soon inflamed,...is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, Of MoSCOiy ,, , . „ - . !_• »_ visit, in which an odd incident looked at, but had a mind to •i... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 576 pages
...constitution, as he was willing to receive : I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him ; he is a man of a very hot temper, soon...is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, (1 The king made the czar a had a great dislike to being visit, in which an odd incident looked at,... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 576 pages
...and constitution, as he was willing to receive. I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him ; he is a man of a very hot temper. soon...great application: he is subject to convulsive motions ah1 over his body, '1 The king made the czar a had a great dislike to being visit, in which an odd... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 596 pages
...and constitution, as he was willing to receive: I had good interpreters, so I had much free discourse with him ; he is a man of a very hot temper, soon...which he rectifies himself with great application f he is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems to be affected with these... | |
| Sir John Barrow - Russia - 1834 - 344 pages
...the bishop, " so I had much free discourse with him. He is a man of very hot temper, soon influenced, and very brutal in his passion ; he raises his natural...drinking much brandy, which he rectifies himself, witli great application ; he is subject to convulsive motions all over his body, and his head seems... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 530 pages
...astonishment to all who approached him. " He is a man," says Burnet, " of a very hot temper, soon influenced, and very brutal in his passion : he raises his natural...which he rectifies himself with great application." We are told that, at their social meetings, the usual drink of the Czar and Lord Carmarthen, was "... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 530 pages
...astonishment to all who approached him. " He is a man," says Burnet, " of a very hot temper, soon influenced, and very brutal in his passion : he raises his natural...which he rectifies himself with great application." We are told that, at their social meetings, the usual drink of the Czar and Lord Carmarthen, was "... | |
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