 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1901 - 438 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterward with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...his words, his periods, and his utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. This... | |
 | Guy de Maupassant - 1903 - 348 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterward with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...his words, his periods, and his utterance were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. "This... | |
 | Guy de Maupassant - 1903 - 338 pages
...active qualities of the mind in every large body of people: periods, and his utterance were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. "This will ever be the case; every numerous assembly is a mob, let the individuals who compose it be... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 458 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with intimate knowledge and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...his words, his periods, and his utterance were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me." In a... | |
 | William Henry Craig - 1907 - 462 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with intimate knowledge and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...as his words, his periods, and his utterance were nor near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me."... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1908 - 288 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with infinite knowledge and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...his words, his periods, and his utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. After... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, Charles Stokes Carey - 1912 - 442 pages
...intricate a matter would admit of; but as his words, his periods, and his utterance were not near BO good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. This will ever be the case ; every numerous assembly is mob, let the individuals who compose it be... | |
 | 1917 - 1432 pages
...intricate a matter could admit of; but as his words, his periods, and hia utterance, were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me' (Letters to his Son, ii. 76, ed. Carey). Macclesfield's action in the matter was highly unpopular (cf.... | |
 | Guy de Maupassant - 1917 - 340 pages
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterward with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of, but as Ms words, his periods, and his utterance were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously,... | |
 | 1925
...greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit...his words, his periods and his utterance were not near so good as mine, the preference was most unanimously, though most unjustly, given to me. . . .... | |
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Macclesfield, who had the greatest share in forming the bill, and who is one of the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in Europe, spoke afterwards with infinite knowledge, and all the clearness that so intricate a matter would admit of: but as his... 
