 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...  A Popular History of Science - Page 299by Robert Routledge - 1881 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 pages
...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 successful combiner...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 - 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
...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...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 - 506 pages
...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...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 - 682 pages
...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 most successful combiner...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...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 of human beings ! Drinking-ciips, formed nf HumanSkulls. — Every reader ot pieiry has heard of Lord Byron's celebrated... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...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...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
...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 successful combiner...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 - 352 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,...but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been reading, laid down their books to listen to this eloquent and just... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 352 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,...but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been reading, laid down their books to listen to this eloquent and just... | |
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