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A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science ... - Page xciv
by William Thomas Brande - 1830 - 493 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...exact information,— had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. lie had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

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,...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...and exact information, had read so much, 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 methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...and exact information, —had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...and exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he had read so ac curately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...methodising power of understanding, which extracted extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what be had read so ac cujatdy and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which s extracted 464 [NOT. extracted something precloui out of til (hat was presented to it. Hii stores...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...exact information, — had read 10 much, or remembered what he had read so ac curately and $o well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of undemanding, which extracted 464 Memoir of James Watt, Esq. [Kw. extracted something preciouf out of...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with...
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