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" ... have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music,... "
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes - Page 321
by George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 3 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1842 - 634 pages
...metaphysics, medicine, etymology, architecture, music, and Jaw- ; he was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. The young reader may infer, from the great attainments of Mr. Watt, how much may be accomplished and...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with the most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and i engineer detailing and expounding, for hours tocak | the metaphysical theories of the German logicians...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages — and familiar with...or criticising the .measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, nr criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...all the details of architecture, muiic, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modem languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to bear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for houn together, the metaphysical...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their...logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and...
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