text:  In the broad bold forehead the strong sense--in the relaxed mouth the self-indulgent and reckless enjoyment--in the quick small eye under those magnificent black brows the man of sagacity of sarcasm and of humour; and in the grand contour of a countenance and head which might have been sculptured to take its place among the sages and sovereigns of antiquity the living proof of those extraordinary powers which could have been checked in their ascent to the highest elevation of public life only by prejudices and passions not less extraordinary