 | Walter Scott - Monastic and religious life - 1820 - 344 pages
...man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...Mr. Watt's improvements on the steamWgine. every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist,—he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if...had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...had his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life, — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philolo-» gist,—he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if...had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said • the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's command. " His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life ; — of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished... | |
 | François Arago - Mechanization - 1839 - 154 pages
...man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...another a celebrated critic, — you would have said that the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life ; — of science it... | |
 | Geology - 1839 - 474 pages
...one's command. His * At the table of one of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.— EDIT. talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...another a celebrated critic, — you would have said that the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life ; — of science it... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...his attention alive to every one's question, his information at every one's command. " His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - Steam-navigation - 1840 - 210 pages
...man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's command. " His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman...said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life: of science it is unnecessary to speak — it was his own distinguished... | |
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His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied... 
