 | John Henry Newman - 1872 - 474 páginas
...this unlovely race ; for an historian tells us, whom I have already made use of, that " his features bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait of Attila exhibits 1 Voyages, tip 456. the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuck ; a large head, a swarthy complexion,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1874 - 720 páginas
...descent from the ancient Huns, who had formerly contended with the monarchs of China. His features bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait...Calmuck; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small clcep-scatcd eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 páginas
...from the ancient Huns, who had formerly somended with the monarchs of China. His features, accord ing to the observation of a Gothic historian, bore the...Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk ; 6 a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in... | |
 | Telemachus Thomas Timayenis - 1880 - 500 páginas
...and avaricious Attila, the " SCOURGE OF GOD," obtained the chief command of the Huns. His features bore the stamp of his national origin ; and the portrait...Calmuck — a large head, a swarthy complexion, small deep-set eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short, square body,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 728 páginas
...iguorant of his father's real name. (De Guigues, Hist. des Huns, torn. ii. p. 297.) seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square bod} ' , of nervous strength, though of a disproportioned forrn. The haughty step and demeanor of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 466 páginas
...formerly eontended with the monarehs of China. His features, aeeording to the observation of a Gothie historian, bore the stamp of his national origin ;...Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk ; a large head, a swarthy eomplexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the... | |
 | Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, Jehu Baker - 1889 - 540 páginas
...the spirit of chivalry. Following Jornandes, Gibbon Bays of the person of Attila : " His features, according to the observation of a Gothic historian,...portrait of Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modem Calmuk ; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hail's... | |
 | Robert F. Pennell - 1890 - 308 páginas
...mark of his Eastern origin. He had a large head, a swarthy complexion, small deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the place of a beard, broad shoulders,...and a short square body, of nervous strength though disproportioned form. This man wielded at will, it is said, an army of over half a million troops.... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1893 - 844 páginas
...descent from the ancient Huns, who had formerly contended with the monarclis of China. His features, according to the observation of a Gothic historian,...Attila exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Calmuk ; a large head, a swarthy complexion, small, deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in the... | |
 | JAMES RICHARD JOY, M. A - 1893 - 362 páginas
...About the year 433 the famous At'tila became their king. " His portrait," says Gibbon, 458*^*1) 463 " " exhibits the genuine deformity of a modern Cal'muck...head, a swarthy complexion, small deep-seated eyes, a flat nose, a few hairs in place of a beard, broad shoulders, and a short square body." By his own genius... | |
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Attila, the son of Mundzuk, deduced his noble, perhaps his regal, descent* from the ancient Huns, who had formerly contended with the monarchs of China. His features, according to the observation of a Gothic historian, bore the stamp of his national origin;... 
