 ... 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
 | 1871 - 402 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing; and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty, — hy his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and... | |
 | Robert Lomas - 1876 - 122 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...'the measures or the matter of the German poetry. JEFFREY, "Edinburgh Review." ARCHBISHOP WHATELY'S HABITS. The chief part of the year was passed by... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the German logicians,...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry — Jeffrey. 160. THE 'GALERIE DE MEDICIS' IN THE LOUVRE. But Rubens, the great, joyous, full-souled,... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 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,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1879 - 348 sayfa
...mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of th* German logicians, or criticising the measures or the...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,... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the German logicians,...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. LORD JEFFREY : Essays from the Edinburgh Jteview. ap-pre-hen-sion, grasping a thought. con-trlv^ance,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 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. 1 His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 sayfa
...at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German...the measures or the matter of the German poetry." Mrs. Schimmel-Penninck, in her "Autobiography," has left us a striking picture of Watt in his old age.... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 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,... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 sayfa
...he had been a very milliner's apprentice of eighteen." His astonishing memory, it has been remarked, was aided, no doubt, in a great measure by a still...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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