 | Joseph Priestley - 1803 - 652 sayfa
...village near W.irrington in Lancafhire where he was born. Plott in his History of Staffordshire t fays ot him, that " his ' hand, from the carpus to the end...broad, and his whole height nine feet three inch" es, wanting," he fays, " but fix inches of the height '* of Goliath of Gath." The picture at Hnle,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1807 - 910 sayfa
...gives the following account of him : — " John Middleton, commonly called the Child of Hale, whose hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches; his palm eight inches and a half; and his height nine feet three inches, wanting... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1803 - 524 sayfa
...village near Warrington, in Lancashire, where he was born. Plot, in his History of Staffordshire, says of him, that " his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches, his palms eight inches and a half broad, and his whole height, nine feet three inches,... | |
 | Stephen Reynolds Clarke - 1830 - 216 sayfa
...height of the child was nine feet three inches, inferior only by six inches to the stature of Goliah ; his hand from the carpus to the end of the middle finger was seventeen inches in length, his palm eight inches and a half broad ; his thigh bone being taken from... | |
 | Thomas Dugdale - 1830 - 266 sayfa
...of Brazennose-college, Oxford. This extraordinary personage was nine feet three inches in height ; his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, measured seventeen inches ; and his palm, eight inches and a half. His formidable appearance was always... | |
 | Joseph Timothy Haydn - 1841 - 586 sayfa
...gives the following account of him : — " John Middleton, commonly called the Child of Hale, whose hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches ; his paira eight inches and a half ; and his height nine feet three inches, wanting... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1865 - 1220 sayfa
...recorded. John Middle-ton, of Hale, in Lancashire, born in 1578, was nine feet three inches in height ; his hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches; his palm eight inches and a half. A blacksmith, named Parsons, who .subsequently... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 sayfa
...gives tbu following account of him : — " John Middleton, commonly callt-d the Child of Hale, whose hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches; his palm eight inches and a half; and his height nine feet three inches, wanting... | |
 | 1853 - 330 sayfa
...History of Staffordshire : — " John Middleton, commonly called the Child of Hale, in Lancashire ; his hand from the carpus to the end of the middle finger was 17 inches long, his palm eight and a half inches broad, aud his whole height nine feet three inches... | |
 | Joseph Haydn - 1853 - 738 sayfa
...tt gives the following account of him: — "John Middlctou, commonly called the Child of Hale, whoeo hand, from the carpus to the end of the middle finger, was seventeen inches ; his palm eight inchee and a half ; and his height nine feet three inches, wanting... | |
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On his return from London, a portrait was taken of him, which is preserved in the library of Brazen-nose College, at Oxford; and Dr. 
