JOHN MONTAGU, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was a tall gangling man with 'strong legs and arms' and a ruddy appearance that led the novelist Frances Burney, when she first met him in 1775, to compare him with a rough-hewn Jack Tar: 'he is a tall, stout man & looks weather-proof as any sailor in the navy'.
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Sentimental Murder
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A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
May 19, 2005, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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"JOHN MONTAGU, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was a tall gangling man with 'strong legs and arms' and a ruddy appearance that led the novelist Frances Burney, when she first met him in 1775, to compare him with a rough-hewn Jack Tar: 'he is a tall, stout man & looks weather-proof as any sailor in the navy'."
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