 | Gleanings - 1805 - 232 pages
...of the Newtonian philosophy. Mechanical exercises were the favourite amusements of his infant years. At a very early age, he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that not-withstanding his entire blindness, he •was able to make little... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 832 pages
...of the Newtonian philosophy. Mechanical exercises were the favorite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he wu able to make little wind-mills... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Education - 1830 - 452 pages
...Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester,' " were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophy - 1830 - 440 pages
...Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester,' " were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills... | |
 | John Kay - Scotland - 1838 - 402 pages
...the Newtonian philosophy. He seems to have delighted in, and to have had a great taste for mechanics, for we are told that 'at a very early age he made...relinquished the design. What was the more immediate cause of his resolving to deliver a course of lectures on chemistry is unknown ; but it was probably the interesting... | |
 | James Wilson - Biography - 1838 - 372 pages
...optics, algebra, astronomy, chemistry, and, in short, most of the branches of the Newtonian philosophy. At a very early age, he made himself acquainted with the use of edge tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little wind-mills;... | |
 | Self-culture - 1840 - 298 pages
...Mr. Bew, who has given a short account of him, " were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1845 - 778 pages
...Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester,' " were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little wind-mills... | |
 | Benjamin B. Bowen - Blind - 1847 - 470 pages
...of the Newtonian philosophy. Mechanical exercises were the favorite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Self-culture - 1858 - 300 pages
...Mr. Bew, who has given a short account of him, " were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that, notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills... | |
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Mechanical exercises were the favourite employments of his infant years. At a very early age he made himself acquainted with the use of edged tools so perfectly, that notwithstanding his entire blindness, he was able to make little windmills ; and he... 
