 | Franz Joseph Gall - Brain - 1835 - 344 pages
...the earth ; it looked forwards; but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How any of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...ignorance, looking downwards upon the 'earth. It looked forward; -but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin ; and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth. It looked forwards ; but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin ; and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth- -it looked forwards ; but looked, as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows: but it would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards ; but looked, as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows: but it \ would have suited a Bramin, and had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...ignorance, looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards; but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows : but it would have suited a Bramin; and had I met it upon the plains of Hindostan,... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1855 - 448 pages
...ignorance looking downwards upon the earth; — it look'd forwards, but look'd as if it look'd at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Brahmin, arid, had I met it upon the plains of Indostan,... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...ignorance looking downward upon the earth, it looked forward ; but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Brahmin, and had I met it upon the plains of Hindostan,... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...ignorance, looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards, but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it foil upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin ; and had I met it on... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...ignorance, looking downwards upon the earth — it looked forwards, but looked as if it looked at something beyond this world. How one of his order came by it, Heaven above, who let it fall upon a monk's shoulders, best knows ; but it would have suited a Bramin ; and had I met it on the plains of Hindostan,... | |
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It was one of those heads which Guido has often painted mild, pale penetrating, free from all commonplace ideas of fat contented ignorance looking downwards upon the earth it look'd forwards ; but look'd, as if it look'd at something beyond this world. 
