 | 1858 - 448 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures, which we at...When, however, we are informed that this boy and its constructor, being suspected of the black art, lay for a time in the Spanish Inquisition, and with... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...its eyes, and at the conclusion of the piece bowed courteously to the audience. Droz's Writing-Boy was publicly exhibited in Germany some years ago....decipher its manner of action ; when, however, we learn that the Boy and its constructor, being suspected of the black art, lay for a time in the Spanish... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures, which we at...When, however, we are informed that this boy and its constructor, being suspected of the black art, lay for a time in the Spanish Inquisition, and with... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures, which we at...is so complicated, that no ordinary head would be sullu.-ii.-nt to decipher its manner of action. When, however, we are informed that this boy and its... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures, which we at...When, however, we are informed that this boy and its constructor, being suspected of the black art, lay for a time in the Spanish Inquisition, and with... | |
 | Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures which we at present...hoped in solemn earnest to solve a great problem. The writing-boy of the elder Droz was publicly exhibited in Germany some years ago. Its wheelwork is so... | |
 | Helmholtz - 1873 - 452 pages
...time in the construction of these figures which we at present regard as the merest trifles, woiild be incomprehensible, if they had not hoped in solemn earnest to solve a great problem. The writing-boy of the elder Proz was publicly exhibited in Germany some years ago. Its wheel work is so... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1873 - 432 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures which we at present regard as the merest trifles, woiild be incomprehensible, if they had not hoped in solemn earnest to solve a great problem. The writing-boy... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1897 - 546 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures which we at present...hoped in solemn earnest to solve a great problem. /The writing-boy of the elder Droz was publicly exhibited in Germany some years ago. Its wheelwork is so... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 482 pages
...talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present age, should spend so much time in the construction of these figures, which we at...When, however, we are informed that this boy and its constructor, being suspected of the black art, lay for a time in the Spanish Inquisition, and with... | |
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Droz: which latter, when performing, followed its hands with its eyes, and at the conclusion of the piece bowed courteously to the audience. That men like those mentioned, whose talent might bear comparison with the most inventive heads of the present... 
