 | William Howard Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 368 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."21' Jefferson considered certain portions of the abbe Raynal's account of the United States, "worthless."... | |
 | Michael P. Branch - Nature - 2004 - 444 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 2004 - 178 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. On George Wythe: No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than George Wythe. His... | |
 | 512 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. In a footnote he points out that the European nations traverse the globe with the aid of Hadley's... | |
 | 540 pages
...forerunner of the planetarium. Jefferson spoke of the orrery in these words: Rittenhouse "has indeed not made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer...than any man who has lived from the creation to this day." This same meeting of the Society on April 19, 1768, was a memorable one as seen from the following... | |
 | Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet - Americanisms - 1927 - 542 pages
...who discovered for himself the theory of Fluxions, made an orrery of which Thomas Jefferson wrote, "He has not indeed made a world but he has by imitation...approached nearer its maker than any man who has lived from creation to this day." He established the circle which is the northern boundary of Delaware and which... | |
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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... 
