 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1809 - 518 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New York. ' He must be at least fifty years old,' said Humboldt. ' He is seventy,' I answered, 1 but as young as ever.' ' Ah,' said he, ' I have lived so long that I have almost lost the consciousness... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New- York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt....the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jeffèrson and Gallatin, and I heard of Washington's death while travelling in South America." I have... | |
 | F.G.Cary - 1857 - 634 էջ
...leaving New York. ' He must be at least fifty years old,' said he.' ' He is seventy,' I answered, ' but young as ever.' ' Ah ! ' said he, ' I have lived so...GALLATIN, and I heard of WASHINGTON'S death while traveling in South America.' He asked me many questions, but did not always wait for an answer, the... | |
 | 1857 - 602 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New- York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt....ever." " Ah !" said he, " I have lived so long that 1 have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1860 - 530 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt....have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong i to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I heard of Washington-s death while travelling in South... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1861 - 536 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt...."He is seventy," I answered, "but as young as ever." " Ali ! " said he, " I have lived so long that I have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong... | |
 | Julius Löwenberg, Robert Avé-Lallemant, Alfred Wilhelm Dove - 1873 - 478 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt....the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I heard of Washington"? death while travelling in South America." ' I have repeated but the smallest portion of... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1885 - 524 էջ
...told him I had the fortune to know Mr. Irving, and had seen him not long before leaving New York. " He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt....America." I have repeated but the smallest portion of his conver sation, which flowed on in an uninterrupted stream of the richest knowledge. On recalling it... | |
 | 1857 - 872 էջ
...before leaving New York. " He must be at least fifty <yeats old," said Humboldt. " He is seventy,'1 I answered, " but as young as ever."— "Ah ! " said he, " I have lived so long 'that 1 have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I... | |
 | Aaron Sachs - 2007 - 510 էջ
...first met the American author some thirty-three years previously. "I have lived so long," he mused, "that I have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin." Humboldt liked to talk about his old age, but he never seems to have been particularly concerned about... | |
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He must be at least fifty years old," said Humboldt. "He is seventy," I answered, "but as young as ever." " Ah ! " said he, " I have lived so long that I have almost lost the consciousness of time. I belong to the age of Jefferson and Gallatin, and I... 