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" Dr Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding. Trained in the discipline of the exact sciences, he had acquired a powerful command over his attention, and had habituated... "
The Edinburgh Journal of Science - Page 348
1830
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs ...

1833 - 504 pages
...Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great vigour of understanding. Trained in the discipline...to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics, to be enabled to pursue...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 14

Englishmen - 1837 - 286 pages
...enthusiasm from temperament, Dr Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....mathematics, to be enabled to pursue with success profound inquiries in mechanical and optical philosophy, the results of which enabled him to unfold the causes...
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Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Gibbon to Wilberforce

1838 - 482 pages
...Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great vigour of understanding. Trained in the discipline...to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics to be enabled to pursue...
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Memoirs of the Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain: Living in the ...

William Walker - 1862 - 256 pages
...summary of his character : — " Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics, to "be enabled to pursue...
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MEMOIRS OF THE DISTINGUISHED MEN OF SCIENCE

ROBERT HUNT F.R.S, F.S.S. - 1862 - 256 pages
...summary of his character:— " Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics, to be enabled to pursue...
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The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of ..., Volume 5

Englishmen - 1863 - 962 pages
...enthusiasm from temperament, Dr Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....of language. He was sufficiently provided with the resouri . of the mathematics, to be enabled to pursue with success profound inquiries in mechanical...
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Memoirs of the distinguished men of science of Great Britain living in ...

William Walker - 1864 - 198 pages
...summary of his character:— " Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of under-standing....to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics, to be enabled to pursue...
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Memoirs of the distinguished men of science of Great Britain living in ...

William Walker - 1864 - 198 pages
...summary of his character : — " Dr. Wollaston was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteness and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....to the most rigid correctness both of thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of the mathematics, to be enabled to pursue...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 2

1866 - 492 pages
...two sciences for which we are under the greatest obligations to him." Dr. Henry says of him that, " trained in the discipline of the exact sciences, he...habituated himself to the most rigid correctness, both in thought and language. He was sufficiently provided with the resources of mathematics to be enabled...
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The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London: 1701 to 1800

William Munk, Royal College of Physicians of London - 1878 - 458 pages
...was right. " Wollaston," says Dr. Henry, " was endowed with bodily senses of extraordinary acuteuess and accuracy, and with great general vigour of understanding....mathematics to be enabled to pursue with success profound inquiries in mechanical and optical philosophy, the results of which enabled him to unfold the cause...
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