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The steam engine familiarly explained and illustrated; with an historical ... - Page 317
by Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 350 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

1823 - 946 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

1819 - 490 pages
...great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — GG 2 by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 780 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...and rejecting as it were instinctively whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

1819 - 708 pages
...great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in n- proper place all the information he received, and...and rejecting as it were instinctively whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to hit mind seemed instantly to take its...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 6

1820 - 496 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power ol digesting and atranging in its proper place all the information he' received,...and rejecting as it were instinctively whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to bis mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...and rejecting as it were instinctively whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

1820 - 494 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...and rejecting as it were instinctively whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Quarterly Journal, Volume 8

1820 - 450 pages
...in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received,...rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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The Edinburgh annual register, Volume 12

1823 - 944 pages
...rarer faculty — by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information lie received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its...
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