 | 1842 - 634 pages
...apprehension, and a rectifying and methodizing power of understanding which extracted something valuable from all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense ; he was well skilled in chemistry and the fine arts, as well as in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics,... | |
 | 1819 - 608 pages
...so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodiginus memory, and a certain rectify ing and methodising power of understanding, which extracted...times over them. It seemed as if every subject that wn* casually started in conversation with him, had been that which he had been last occupied in studying... | |
 | English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...rectifying and methodising power of undemanding, which extracted 464 [Kw. extracted something preciouf out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...less astonishing than the command he had at all times orer them. It seemed a* if every subject that was casually started in conversation with him, had been... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...remembered what he had read so ac curately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and...methodising power of understanding, which extracted 464 [Nor. extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...or remembered what be had read so ac cujatdy and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which s extracted 464 [NOT. extracted something precloui out of til (hat was presented to it. Hii stores... | |
 | English poetry - 1820 - 798 pages
...importantbenefits on mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine. power of understanding, whichextracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense,—and yet less astonishing than the comr mand he had at all times over them. It seemed as... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...able, writer, possessed more varied and exact information. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and...immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had over them. His conversation had all the charms of familiarity, with all the substantial treasures of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something...immense — and yet less astonishing than the command which he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1824 - 524 pages
...or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and...which extracted something precious out of all that was presented,to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense,—and yet less astonishing than... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 944 pages
...remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite [CHAP. 2. quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and...immense, — and yet less astonishing than the command lie had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation... | |
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He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense,... 
