 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...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 not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...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...most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. In his eighty-fourth year his attention was at every one's question, his... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...effects of which, extraordinary as they ¿trendy are, arc perhaps only now beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science, the...of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to gen eral purposes—was not only one of the mo« generally well informed, hut one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...effects of which, extraordinary as they already are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science, the...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...Watt's improvements on the steamengine. cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only...purposes,— was not only one of the most generally well-informed,—but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Architecture - 1825 - 358 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,...purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of • the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 662 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,...practical purposes; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 356 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,...purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1827 - 370 pages
...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 not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Chemistry - 1830 - 678 pages
...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...most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. In his eighty-fourth year his attention was at every one's question, his... | |
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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 successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of... 
