 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
 | 1839 - 474 pages
...which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only 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 little... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...are, are, perhaps, only now beginning to be felt—was not only the most profound man of science—the most successful combiner of powers, 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 of... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...ex' traordinary as they are, are, perhaps, only now beginning to be felt — ' was not only the most profound man of science — the most successful '...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 - 1844 - 670 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 414 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,...purposes — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...felt — was * At the table of one of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses. not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner...purposes — was not only one of the most generally wellinformed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...of which, extraordinary as they are, perhaps only now beginning to be felt — waa not only the most DD ~ ]#b e hqLNq A_0 nb D 3,) y I + $F ' 8 M $Rt D... a ySDN * De $ P _ G$ ] WS X l ] 4 $9V Vb 9!l s well-informed, but one of the kindest of human beings. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 538 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... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 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 of powers and calculator of numbers, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. ... In his eighty-first year, the alert, kind, benevolent... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1853 - 502 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... | |
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