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" ... occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too... "
Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - Page 691
by Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...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...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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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...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...doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — GG 2 by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with the most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and i engineer detailing and expounding, for hours tocak | the metaphysical theories of the German logicians...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...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...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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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages — and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was...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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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...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...the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, nr criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...details of architecture, muiic, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modem languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to bear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for houn together, the metaphysical...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...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...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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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...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...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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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and fiyniliar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...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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