 His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist, — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied...  Life of James Watt - Page 85by François Arago - 1839 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 pages
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 pages
...critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life,—of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotnam, you would have sworn... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 pages
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 pages
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - 502 pages
...— you would have said the old man had studied Political Economy and Belles Lettres all his lite ; of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | 1839 - 474 pages
...every one's command. His * At the table of one of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.— EDIT. talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One...countryman, you would have supposed he had been coeval with Olavers and Burley, — with the persecutors and persecuted ; and could number every shot that the... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 pages
...alphabet, as if he had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak — it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 pages
...celebrated critic — you " would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles " lettres all his life. Of science it is unnecessary to speak...— it was his own " distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with " your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 pages
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have -said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbothnm, you would have sworn... | |
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