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The Steady Aim: a Book of Examples and Encouragements from Modern Biography ... - Page 17
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1863 - 267 pages
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That be should have been minutely and extensively skilled...occupations, and probably is not generally known; that he was :uriously learned in many branches of antiquity,- metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical...occupations, and probably is not generally known, that be was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical...conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his wsual occupations, and probably i> not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...have been conjectured; but it could not have been interred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known that he was curiously learned...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in. chymistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical...science, might perhaps have been conjectured; but it f could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymolpgy, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probajbly is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysicks,...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected will) his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...of the branches of physical science, might perhaps nave been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volume 84

1819 - 606 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the Etudies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...occupations, and probably is not generally known, that ne was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively...of the branches of physical science, might perhaps liave been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably...
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