. Recollections of a lifetime : or men and things I have seen ; in a series of familiar letters to a friend ; historical, biographical, anecdotical, and descriptive . m ! Perhapsthe silvery-whiteness of their heads—for the majoritywere past fifty, several past sixty—may have pleadedin extenuation of this sinister complexion of their most imposing man among them, in personalappearance, was George Cabot,^ the president. Hewas over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, and ofa manly step, liis hair was white—for he was pastsixty—his eye blue, his complexion slightly florid. Heseemed to
. Recollections of a lifetime : or men and things I have seen ; in a series of familiar letters to a friend ; historical, biographical, anecdotical, and descriptive . m ! Perhapsthe silvery-whiteness of their heads—for the majoritywere past fifty, several past sixty—may have pleadedin extenuation of this sinister complexion of their most imposing man among them, in personalappearance, was George Cabot,^ the president. Hewas over six feet in height, broad-shouldered, and ofa manly step, liis hair was white—for he was pastsixty—his eye blue, his complexion slightly florid. Heseemed to me like WashiuLfton—as if the ^reat man, fiJence of Hamilton, King, Jay, ami other notabilities of that day, andthat he made the Evening Post worthy of the editorial 8ucce!<sor»hip ofLeggett (ISiilt) and of Bryant (lJ!i;30). * George Cabot was a native of Salem, Mass., born in 1752. He wasoriginally a shipmaster, but he rose to various stations of became a senator of the rnited States, and in ITJS was first Secretary of the Navy, hut declined. His personal inliuencein lioston was unbounded, llriifid in that city, 1S2 George Cabot. Vol. 2, p. 36. i lilSTOKICAL, AXECDOTICAL, ETC. 37 as painted by Stuart, had walked out of the canvas,and lived and breathed among us. He was, in fact,Washingtonian in his whole air and bearing, as wasproper for one who was Washingtons friend, andwho had drunk deep at the same fountain—that ofthe Kevolution—of the spirit of truth, honor, andpatriotism. In aspect and general appearance, hewas strikingly dignitied, and such was the eftect ofhis presence, that in a crowded room, and amid othermen of mark—when you once became conscious thathe was there, you could hardly forget it. You seem-ed always to see him—as the traveler in Switzerlandsees Mont Blanc towerin<T above other mountains o around him, wherever he may be. And yet he waseasy and gracious in his manners, his countenancewearing a calm but
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