... and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and... The Gentleman's Magazine - Sayfa 4641819Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 sayfa
...all extraordinary to " hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and " expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories " of the German...faculty, — by his power " of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the " information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, " as it were... | |
| Perseverance - 1862 - 310 sayfa
...acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, -and familiar with their most recent literature. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great...faculty, — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were in^... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1864 - 458 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...faculty, — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 sayfa
...and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. "...faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively,... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 sayfa
...and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His...doubt in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty—by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,... | |
| John Epy Lovell - 1866 - 568 sayfa
...acquainted, too, with most of the "modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt in a great...faculty, — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place, all the information he received, and of casting aside, and rejecting, as it were... | |
| John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry." It was this promiscuous occupation of the mind, and the energy of imagination which... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 sayfa
...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging hi its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were... | |
| William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 530 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 270 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively,... | |
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