 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 380 pages
...Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 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... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 pages
...exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. 4. He had infinite quickness of 'apprehension, a prodigious...and a certain 'rectifying and 'methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 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... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - 1884 - 988 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... | |
 | 1899 - 206 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... | |
 | John Mackintosh - 1896 - 532 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 present... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 398 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... | |
 | Charles William Colby - 1899 - 378 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 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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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 miscellaneous knowledge were immense,... 
