 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 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...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. It is needless to say, with these vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich and instructive... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literatare. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great...the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishmg memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty —... | |
 | John Bourne - 1851 - 346 pages
...acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nur was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry.* It was this promiscuous occupation of the mind, and the energy of imagination which... | |
 | John Bourne (C.E.) - 1853 - 344 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...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry. " It was this promiscuous occupation of the mind, and the energy of imagination which... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1854 - 732 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,... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. N®r was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry. " It is needless to say that, with those vast resources, his conversation was at all... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 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, er -criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry. " Jt is needless to say that, with those... | |
 | Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 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...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " It is needless to say that, with these vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich and... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1856 - 444 pages
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar wilh their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary...for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the Gsrman logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing tho measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing...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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... 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... 
