Saturday, February 03, 2018

What a description!

"His large, nearsighted eyes and full cheeks giving him the look, as the wit Horace Walpole said, of a blind trumpeter."

(A not-very-flattering description of Frederick, Lord North as given in 1776, by David McCullough)


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