 This potent commander of the elements this abridger of time and space this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are, perhaps, only now beginning to be felt was...  Waverley Novels: The monasteryby Sir Walter Scott, George Cruikshank - 1877Snippet view - About this book
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1820 - 351 pages
...also a land-surveyor) thinks this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1820 - 351 pages
...this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound mm of science, the most successful combiner of powers...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821
...world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth - 1821
...of which, extraordinary as they Ώtrendy are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science, the most...of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to general purposes was not only one of the mou generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Walter Scott (sir, bart [novels, collected]) - 1822
...the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt was not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | 1823
...which , extraordinary as the_y already are , are perhaps only icow beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science , the most...of powers , and calculator of numbers as adapted to general purposes , was not only one of the most generally well informed , but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | maria edgeworth - 1825
...extraordinary as they are, perhaps are only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most refined man of science, the most successful combiner of powers,...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of... | |
| maria edgeworth - 1825
...extraordinary as they are, perhaps are only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most refined man of science, the most successful combiner of powers,...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 340 pages
...extraordinary as they are, perhaps are only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most refined man of science, the most successful combiner of powers,...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Sholto Percy - Technology & Engineering - 1833
...the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt was not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the best informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.... | |
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