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... James Watt - Page 238by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
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