 | 1842 - 634 pages
...as in many branches of antiquity, 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... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...is not generally known; that he was :uriously learned in many branches of antiquity,- metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...i> 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, muiic, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modem languages, and familiar with their... | |
 | 1820 - 496 pages
...probably is not generally known that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together, tbe metaphysical theories of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in...acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and fiyniliar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysicks, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, musick, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages — and familiar with... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 508 pages
...well acquainted with many subjects of antiquarian research, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, arid perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, 'and law: He was also familiar with both the literature and languages of modern Europe, and it was not uncommon to hear... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...probably is not generally known, that ne was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the grant mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories... | |
 | 1829 - 298 pages
...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 archrtecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar... | |
 | Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - Inventors - 1829 - 418 pages
...metaphysics, medicine, and etymology ; and perfectly at home in all the :-; A. 2 544 WATT'S ACQUIREMENTS. details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with several of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all... | |
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... skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and, probably, is not generally known, that he was curiously... 
