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The Art of Weaving: By Hand and by Power, with an Introductory Account of ... - Page 328
by Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 542 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...information,— had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. lie had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 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 memory,...and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...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 methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...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 methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of undemanding, which extracted 464 Memoir of James Watt, Esq. [Kw. extracted something...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...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 methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was' presented...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 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 memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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A manual of chemistry, Volume 1

William Thomas Brande - 1821 - 506 pages
...his age, says another, and equally able, writer, possessed more varied and exact information. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 to it. His stores of...
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