 | 1829 - 298 oldal
...archrtecture, music, and law. He 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 rhe great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 438 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, witii most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the (Jertnon poetry. ' His astonishing memory was aided, no douht, in a great measure, by a still higher... | |
 | 1833 - 504 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. * * * " It is needless to say, that with those vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages — and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of German poetry. In his temper and dispositions he was not only kind and affectionate, but generous and... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages—and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...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,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well ac" quainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their " most recent literature. Nor was it at...and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting, and ar" ranging in its proper place, all the information he received ; and of " casting aside and rejecting,... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well ac" quainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their " most recent literature. Nor was it at...and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting, and ar" ranging in its proper place, all the information he received; and of " casting aside and rejecting,... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. He generally seemed, indeed, to have no choice or predilection for one subject of discourse rather... | |
 | 1841 - 736 oldal
...familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanic and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together...no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rare faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he... | |
 | 1841 - 846 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He 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 the great mechanic and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the... | |
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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... 
