... 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 - Page 4641819Full view - About this book
| 1823 - 946 pages
...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,... | |
| 1819 - 490 pages
...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 — GG 2 by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,... | |
| 1819 - 610 pages
...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,... | |
| 1820 - 482 pages
...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... | |
| 1820 - 494 pages
...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... | |
| 1820 - 496 pages
...extraordinary to hear the mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together, tbe metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or...a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power ol digesting and atranging in its proper place all the information he' received, and of casting aside... | |
| 1820 - 450 pages
...together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticising 4he measures or the matter of German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no...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,... | |
| 1823 - 944 pages
...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,... | |
| John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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. In his temper and dispositions lie was not only kind and affectionate, but generous... | |
| 1823 - 944 pages
...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 mutter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no duubt, in a great measure, by a... | |
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