Off Hand Takings Or Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable Men of Our Age
Off Hand Takings Or Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable Men of Our Age
George Washington Bungay
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Perhaps, no man in this country is so thoroughly famihar with ancient and modern history — certainly, no man in the United States has written so voluminously as he, on the intensely interesting subject of Uni- versal History. He is a profound philosopher, a deep thinker, a cogent reasoner, a caustic antagonist, and a never-tiring student. He never twangs his bow without piercing the mark with his arrow, which though sharp, is never pointed with poison. In person, he is tall, well proportioned ;... has a fresh, healthy 1G4 CRAYON SKETCHES, AND face (ladies pronounce him handsome) ; dark hair ; lofty forehead ; dark, dreamy eyes, which light up in conversation. He speaks and writes our language much better than a majority of even our literary men. The following letter which was written by a fiiend, gives a condensed and gi-aphic sketch of the life of this noted man, and with it I close this " taking. " " Dr. Hebbe's family is originally from Bohemia ; where one of its members received a large landed estate, together with the title of Baron, in the tenth century, from the emperor, Henry the Fowler, on account of great military services in the war against the Magyars.
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