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" His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense, — and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation... "
The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence - Page 526
by James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 580 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany

1842 - 634 pages
...apprehension, and a rectifying and methodizing power of understanding which extracted something valuable from all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense ; he was well skilled in chemistry and the fine arts, as well as in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics,...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting, such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; — such was the copiousness, the precision, and admirable clearness of the information...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. • His stores...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; — such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...Hii stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense, — and yrt less astonishing than the commaud be had at all times over them. It seemed as if every...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...the command he had at all times over them. It seemed us if every subject that was casually started in conversation with him, had been that which he had...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

1819 - 800 pages
...power of undemanding, which extracted 464 Memoir of James Watt, Esq. [Kw. extracted something preciouf out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...less astonishing than the command he had at all times orer them. It seemed a* if every subject that was casually started in conversation with him, had been...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was' presented to it. His stores of...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of...been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information...
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