 ... 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 engineer detailing and expounding, for...  The Triumphs of Perseverance and Enterprise - Strana 104podľa Thomas Cooper - 1879 - Počet stránok 304Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Henry Howe - 1858 - Počet stránok 524
...and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the G3/man logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its piace among its other rich furniture, and... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - Počet stránok 652
...mechanician and engineer detailing and " expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories " of the German logicians, or criticising the measures or the...as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or imma" terial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind " seemed instantly to take its place... | |
 | Perseverance - 1862 - Počet stránok 310
...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...received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were in^ stinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. " It Is needless to say, that with these vast... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - Počet stránok 442
...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 - Počet stránok 568
...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...instinctively, whatever was •worthless or immaterial. He never appeared therefore to be at all encumbered or perplexed with the "verbiage of the dull books... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - Počet stránok 324
...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... | |
 | 1871 - Počet stránok 402
...mechanician and engineer detailing; and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticising the measures or the...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... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - Počet stránok 312
...mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or 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 Lomas - 1876 - Počet stránok 122
...mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticising '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... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - Počet stránok 212
...mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or 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,... | |
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