 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 726 pages
...artist he has exhibited a; great a proof of mechanical genins as the world has ever produced. He has m.; indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation approached...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... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Biography & Autobiography - 1858 - 698 pages
...he has exhibited «a great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has no; indeed made a world ; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker thtn any man who has lived from the creation to this day.' As in philosophy and war, so in government,... | |
 | Henry Simpson - History - 1859 - 1186 pages
...self-taught. As an artist, he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has, by imitation, approached nearer his Maker than any mere man who has lived from the creation to this day." JACOB HITTER, JR. JACOB HITTER,... | |
 | Henry Simpson - Biography - 1859 - 1170 pages
...self-taught. As an artist, he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world ever produced. He has not indeed made a world ; but he has, by imitation, approached nearer his Maker than any mere man who has lived from the creation to this day." JACOB RITTER, JR. JACOB RITTER,... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 704 pages
...As an artist he has exhibited a* great a proof of mechanical genins as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any mau who has lived from the creation to this day." As in philosophy and war. BO in government, in oratory,... | |
 | Science - 1890 - 900 pages
...As an artist he lias 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." A committee of thirteen persons was appointed by the American Philosophical Society early in... | |
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - Electronic journals - 1872 - 404 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,... | |
 | Charles Shearer Keyser - History - 1872 - 186 pages
...an artist, because he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical skill as the world ever produced. He has not indeed made a world, but he has by imitation approached nearer his Maker than any mere man who has lived from the creation to these days." And this is further said,... | |
 | Benjamin Rush - Germans - 1875 - 80 pages
...a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not, indeed, made a world, but has by imitation, approached nearer its Maker, than any man who has ever lived from the creation to this day." Jefferson s Notes of Fa., p. 90. Jefferson alludes in this... | |
 | Joseph Cochran - Mifflin County (Pa.) - 1879 - 452 pages
...of the Capital at Washington is that of a German. Said Thomas Jefferson, of David' Rittenhouse : ' He has not indeed made a world, but he has by imitation...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.' There are no Pennsylvania names more cherished at home and more deservedly noted abroad than... | |
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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... 
