 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 pages
...this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 348 pages
...this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound mm of science, the most successful combiner of powers...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt—was 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... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers...purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. In his eighty-fourth year his attention... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...they already are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to general purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to general purposes — was not only one of the mou generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings ! Drinking-ciips, formed nf HumanSkulls. — Every reader ot pieiry has heard of Lord Byron's celebrated... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers...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... | |
 | 1823 - 228 pages
...already are , are perhaps only icow beginning to be felt, and •who was not only the most profound man of science , the most successful combiner of powers , and calculator of numbers as adapted to general purposes , was not only one of the most generally well informed , but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 358 pages
...threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time aud space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced...eulogium. When it was finished, and when the reader's voice stopped, there was silence for a moment — then a general burst of admiration. " Who wrote it... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 662 pages
...beginning to be felt, was not only the most refined man of science, the most successful combiner ofpowers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical...eulogium. When it was finished, and" when the reader's voice stopped, there was silence for a moment — then a general burst of admiration. "Who wrote it?... | |
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This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was... 
