 | Walter Scott - Monastic and religious life - 1820 - 344 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 348 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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 348 pages
...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 * Note by Captain Clutterbuck. Probably the ingenious author alludes to the national adage : The king... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...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...purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. In his eighty-fourth year his attention... | |
 | 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, 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 mou generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...steamengine. cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be...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... | |
 | 1823 - 228 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
