 | Perseverance - Biography - 1862 - 310 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...in most of the branches of physical science, might probably have been conjectured ; but it would not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1864 - 458 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiouity, •• 1 • ', ••• i i1 • ' . -...-.-.- .i :• • - '. .:...-,,! •!.-..•... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and inmost of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured; but it could not have... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - Patience - 1865 - 104 pages
...fortitude for an end — by the persevering collection of all that could lead to its attainment. He was skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, and he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, law, and medicine, and perfectly at home... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...varied and exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he read so accurately and well. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most oLthc branches of "physical science, might perhaps have been "conjectured ; but it could not have been... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Men - 1869 - 324 pages
...knowledge were immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. * * * • That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most branches of physical science, might perhaps have >en conjectured; but it could not have been inferred... | |
 | Pamphilius (pseud.) - 1869 - 282 pages
...fortitude for an end — by the persevering collection of all that could lead to its attainment. He was skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, and he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, law, and medicine, and perfectly at home... | |
 | Young people - 1875 - 690 pages
...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting. .... Nor was this promptitude and 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 learned in many branches of antiquity,... | |
 | Hugues Charles S. Cassal, Théodore Karcher - 1876 - 312 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it, without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...not have been inferred from his usual occupations that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology,... | |
 | Robert Lomas - English language - 1876 - 122 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it, without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. II. That he should have been minutely and extensively ski/led in chemistry and the arts, and in most... | |
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... had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and... 
