 ... any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. 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...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 2731820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ackworth sch - 1865
...branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - 1866
...branches of "physical science, might perhaps have been "conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty,... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 495 Seiten
...branches of physical science might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 288 Seiten
...conjectured; but it could not have been inferred m his usual occupations, and probably is not genelly known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871
...branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871
...branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories... | |
 | Young people - 1875
...compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. .... It probably is not generally known, that he was curiously...all the details of architecture, music, and law." Watt became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784, of the Royal Society of London in 1788,... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876
...might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations that he was curiously learned in many branches of...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories... | |
 | Robert Lomas - 1876 - 100 Seiten
...branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured, but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acqtiainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature.... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879
...branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, meta' physics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music,... | |
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