 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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...metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 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." It was this promiscuous occupation of the mind, and the energy of imagination which... | |
 | 1871 - 402 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...great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty, — hy his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and... | |
 | Robert Lomas - 1876 - 122 oldal
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acqtiainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...'the measures or the matter of the German poetry. JEFFREY, "Edinburgh Review." ARCHBISHOP WHATELY'S HABITS. The chief part of the year was passed by... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 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 — Jeffrey. 160. THE 'GALERIE DE MEDICIS' IN THE LOUVRE. But Rubens, the great, joyous, full-souled,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1879 - 348 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...expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of th* German logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 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. LORD JEFFREY : Essays from the Edinburgh Jteview. ap-pre-hen-sion, grasping a thought. con-trlv^ance,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 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. 1 His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1881 - 506 oldal
...architecture, music, and Jaw. He was well acquainted; too, with most . of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. "Nor was it at...the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, cr .criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry.' Mrs. Schimmel-Penninck, in her 'Autobiography,'... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1882 - 514 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...the measures or the matter of the German poetry." Mrs. Schimmel-Penninck, in her "Autobiography," has left us a striking picture of Watt in his old age.... | |
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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... 
