... 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
| Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...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,... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1840 - 288 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,... | |
| Henry Howe - 1840 - 492 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 instinc.... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 sayfa
...all extraordinary to hear the great " mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, " the metaphysical theories of the German...and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting, and ar" ranging in its proper place, all the information he received ; and of " casting aside and rejecting,... | |
| Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 sayfa
...all extraordinary to hear the great " mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, " the metaphysical theories of the German...and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting, and ar" ranging in its proper place, all the information he received; and of " casting aside and rejecting,... | |
| Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. He generally seemed, indeed, to have no choice or predilection for one subject of discourse rather... | |
| 1843 - 350 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,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1844 - 622 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 - 1845 - 778 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 propcr place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively,... | |
| Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...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,... | |
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