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...great officers, that his whole court could not shew a man without a wry neck. 9. Dionysius's flatterers ran against one another in his presence, stumbled at and overturned whatever was under foot, to shew they were as purblind as thnr sovereign. 10. King Henry VIII. of England, anno 1521, cut his hair...

...says Lipsius ; and Montaigne, in his Essays, tells us tliat Dionysius's flatterers run one against another in his presence, stumbled at, and overturned whatever was under foot, to shew they were as blind as their sovereign. Henry the Eight of England, in the year 1521, took it into...

...Alexander's followers carried their heads on one side, as he did; and the flatterers of Dionysius run against one another in his presence, stumbled at, and overturned whatever was under foot, to shew that they were as purblind as he. Natural imperfections have sometimes also served to recommend...

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...Imitation. — In the Court of Alexander the Great, every one affected to carry his head awry, because the mighty hero had a twist in his neck, which made it...their sovereign." Don John of Austria, son of Charles V., had a large patch of hair on one side of his head, which grew upright like bristles ; and to conceal...

...Imitation. — In the Court of Alexander the Great, every one affected to carry his head awry, because the mighty hero had a twist in his neck, which made it with him a grace of necessity. Dionysins was extremely short-sighted ; and his flatterers, as Montaigne tells us, "ran against one...

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...Alexander's followers carried their heads on one side, as he did ; and the flatterers of Dionysius is, underfoot, to show that they were as purblind as he. Natural imperfections have sometimes also served...