 | Thomas Jefferson - Tobacco - 1832 - 296 pages
...As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.f As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastio art, we might... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...As an artist he has exlubited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day. As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might... | |
 | James Renwick, Oliver William Bourne Peabody - United States - 1837 - 432 pages
...effect, it would have enabled him to occupy a great space in the history of astronomy. He had already shown himself the equal, in point of learning and...observer, to any practical astronomer then living ; nothing was wanting to make him rank with the Flamsteads, the Halleys, and the Maskelynes, but that... | |
 | Henry Cook Todd - Canada - 1840 - 300 pages
...joint-stools, and other odd-legged titings, in writing to Abbe Raynal, has this climax — "He (Rittenhouse) has not indeed made a world ; but he has, by imitation, approached nearer to its Maker, than any man who has lived from the creation to this day." This same Mr. Jefferson, by... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - Electronic journals - 1872 - 398 pages
...Renwick, his biographer, pronounced as " second to Franklin alone in point of scientific merit, and the equal, in point of learning and skill, as an observer, to any practical astronomer then living," had, some years prior to his death, in 1796, contributed many valuable papers on astronomical, philosophical,... | |
 | Job Roberts Tyson - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 36 pages
...Jefferson extravagantly said, " you have not indeed made a world, but you have approached more nearly to its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day." It is certainly a monument to his genius and mechanical power. But it is time to bring this dissertation... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1837 - 426 pages
...effect, it would have enabled him to occupy a great space in the history of astronomy. He had already shown himself the equal, in point of learning and...observer, to any practical astronomer then living ; nothing was wanting to make him rank with the Flamsteads, the Halleys, and the Maskelynes, but that... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.* As in philosophy and war, so in government. in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 438 pages
...effect, it would have enabled him to occupy a great space in the history of astronomy. He had already shown himself the equal, in point of learning and...observer, to any practical astronomer then living ; nothing was wanting to make him rank with the Flamsteads, the Halleys, and the Maskelynes, but that... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 710 pages
...As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.1 As in philosophy and war, so in government, in oratory, in painting, in the plastic art, we might... | |
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We have supposed Mr. Rittenhouse second to no astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught. As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made... 
