 | Manchester district Sunday school assoc - 744 pages
...Swedish artist having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant paint-brushes. Ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising grates, curing smoky chimneys, warming their houses, and obtaining fast colours. I can speak, from experience, of... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...military men, artists, ladies, even " little children thronged round him. I remember a cele" brated Swedish artist having been instructed by him " that...make a dulcimer and improve " a Jew's harp." * Mrs. ScliimmelPenninck adds, " Mr. " Watt was ever ready to give information, even to the most " ignorant... | |
 | Mary Anne Galton Schimmelpenninck - 1858 - 576 pages
...having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant and elastic painting-brush ; ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising...me how to make a dulcimer and improve a Jew's harp. Many years after this, I think it was during the peace of Amiens, Air. Watt visited Paris. It so happened... | |
 | 1858 - 592 pages
...Swedish artist having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant painting-brushes ; ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising grates, curing smoking chimneys, wanning their houses, and obtaining fast colours. I can speak from experience of his teaching me how... | |
 | James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 652 pages
...unassuming. In " a company where he was not known, unless spoken to, he " might have tranquilly passed tho whole time in pursuing " his own meditations. But...SchimmelPenninck adds, " Mr. Watt was ever ready to give informa" tion, even to the most ignorant ; and often do I remember " his calling me to sit upon his... | |
 | Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck - 1859 - 590 pages
...having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant and elastic painting-brush ; ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising...me how to make a dulcimer and improve a Jew's harp. Many years after this, I think it was during the peace of Amiens, Mr. Watt visited Paris. It so happened... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1859 - 296 pages
...having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant and elastic painting-brush. Ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising grates, curing smoky chimneys, warming their houses, and obtaining fast colours. I can speak from experience of his... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 478 pages
...best means of devising grates, curing smoky chimneys, warming their houses, and obtaining fast colors. I can speak from experience of his teaching me how to make a dulcimer and improve a Jew's harp." In the year 1786 Watt and Boulton visited Paris, on the invitation of the French government, to superintend... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 432 pages
...letters, men of science, nay, military men, artists, ladies, even little children, thronged round him. Ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising grates, curing smoky chimneys, warming their houses, and obtaining fast colours. I can speak from experience of his... | |
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Swedish artist having been instructed by him that rats' whiskers make the most pliant and elastic painting-brush ; ladies would appeal to him on the best means of devising grates, curing smoking chimneys, warming their houses, and obtaining fast colours.... 
