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" It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with him had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he... "
The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence - Page 527
by James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 580 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That be should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude •nd compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pnrsuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in ehymislry and the arts, and...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it, without effort or hesitation. Nor waa this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined...have been conjectured; but it could not have been interred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known that he was curiously learned...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...should have been minutely and extensively skilled in. chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured;...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and...should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured...
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