 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 754 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured : But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...— and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured: But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 trang
...and in most of the tranches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...— and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding,... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to bear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred, from his usual occupations,...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding,... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 trang
...might, perhaps, have Leen conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from lus usual occupation?, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literatare. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 trang
...science, might have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred, from his usual occupations, that he was curiously learned in many branches of...most of the modern languages, and familiar with their recent literature. His astonishing memory was aided no doubt by a higher and rarer faculty ; — by... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 trang
...and in most of the branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations,...was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysies, medicine, and etymology ; and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music,... | |
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That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is... 
