 | Walter Scott - Monastic and religious life - 1820 - 344 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes,—was not only one of the most generally well-informed,—but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes,—was not only one of the most generally well-informed,—but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 852 pages
...practical purposes,— w»i not only one of the most generally well-informed,— but one of the beat and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not lets tenacious, generally speak inf, of their own fame... | |
 | François Arago - Mechanization - 1839 - 154 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. «...surrounded by the little band of northern literati. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert,... | |
 | Geology - 1839 - 474 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There...surrounded by the little band of northern literati. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert,... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes—was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - Steam-engines - 1840 - 574 pages
...calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical " purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one " of the best and kindest of human...beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of " northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own "... | |
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... not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. 
