This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...famous Stars and Stripes, bore a most extraordinary resemblance to the Empress Eugenie. Her sister is married to General di Cesnola, who added so much to our stores of antiquarian knowledge by his exhumations at Cyprus. Burlinghame was a noble type of manhood, of mixed Welsh and Highland-Scotch stock, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...famous Stars and Stripes, bore a most extraordinary resemblance to the Empress Eugenie. Her sister is married to General di Cesnola, who added so much to our stores of antiquarian knowledge by his exhumations at Cyprus. Burlinghame was a noble type of manhood, of mixed Welsh and Highland-Scotch stock, the very one to furnish the pioneers of a new civilisation, because combining the energy that wins with the tenacity that holds and consolidates--the Celtic fire disciplined and kept under control, as fire is in the steam-engine, by American utilitarianism--tall, massy, with regular features tinted as if by the sun of the tropics, and a full broad forehead, circled with dark brown hair. When I saw him he was as plainly dressed as Benjamin Franklin. No flame of tinsel flashed from his coat; he did not wear even a button of honour, yet there was a quiet consciousness of power in his mien, as well there might be; for this was the representative of a territory one and two-fifths the size of Europe, peopled with over five hundred millions of inhabitants. He, a mere person in his garb, glanced now and again with a shrewd smile of kindly humour at a pompous being--a personage most assuredly--under a chandelier, his showy uniform, bespangled as a harlequin's jacket, glittering in the strong light like a flamingo's wing, and flinging back stronger reflections from edges of shimmering bullion. His breast was resplendent as the front of one of the shops where decorations are sold in the galleries of the Palais Royal. He must have been Knight of the Green Crocodile of the Nile, Chevalier of St. Pinchbeck, and Companion of the Exalted Order of the Electro-plated Candlestick, in addition to wearing the collar of the Bath and Washhouse, and the insignia of...
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