 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...varied 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1866 - 432 pages
...varied exact information, tad read so much, and remembered what he had read so accurately and 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... | |
 | John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 pages
...much and such varied information, had read so much, or remembered what he 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... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power ol understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 270 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...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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 530 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...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... | |
 | 1871 - 404 pages
...varied 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented... | |
 | Charles Hole - 1871 - 288 pages
...says that ' he had a certain rectifying or methodizing power of mind. He read much, and his stores of knowledge were immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them.' When you have fallen into a happy method of study, and have got accustomed... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered so accurately and well what he had read. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power which extracted something precious out -of all that was presented to it. His stores... | |
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Mr. Watt was an extraordinary and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness... 
