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" One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants... "
The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family ... - Page 187
by Edmund Lodge - 1847 - 531 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into ...

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1786 - 552 pages
...of George III, writes: — ' One there was . . . the noblest figure I ever saw, the high-constable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the Giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added...
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Private Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Now ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole - 1820 - 526 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high-constable of Scotland, lord Errol; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt. It added...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the highconstable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt It added...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 4

Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 pages
...noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the highconstable of Scotland, Lord Errol ; as one saw him in a space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall, new gilt It added...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 478 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants in Guildhall new gilt. It added...
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Notes and Queries, Volume 75

Questions and answers - 1887 - 678 pages
...Constable of Scotland at the coronation, and is mentioned by Horace Walpole, in his account of it, "as the noblest figure I ever saw, the High Constable of Scotland, Lord Errol." In Westminster Hal], where the banquet took place, fifteen years before, his father, the Earl of Kilmarnock,...
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Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1855 - 446 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It added...
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Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover, Volume 2

Dr. Doran (John) - Queens - 1855 - 450 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...in a space capable of containing him, one admired Kim. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It...
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Miscellaneous Works, Volume 4

Dr. Doran (John) - 1857 - 390 pages
...the Dukes of Richmond and Marlborough to make them noticed. One there was, though of another species, the noblest figure I ever saw, the high constable...space capable of containing him, one admired him. At the wedding, dressed in tissue, he looked like one of the giants at Guildhall, new gilt. It added...
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The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage: Containing the ...

Edmund Lodge - Baronetage - 1859 - 914 pages
...accomplishments of his mind as well as of his person. Horace Walpole, in adverting to the Coronation of GEOBGE III., makes the following remarkable observation concerning...figure I ever saw, the High Constable of Scotland, Lord Erroll ; as one saw him in i space capable of containing him, one admired him ; and it added to the...
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