 ... the world the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes,...  James Watt - Page 238by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 pages
...profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the...surrounded by the little band of northern literati. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert,... | |
 | 1839 - 474 pages
...profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the...surrounded by the little band of northern literati. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert,... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...profound man of science — the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the...beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 pages
...most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes—was not only one of the most generally well-informed,...beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned, of Northern literati; men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 576 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical ' purposes—was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one " of the best and kindest of human beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of " northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own "... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 pages
...numbers, as adapted to practical " purposes — was not only one of the most generally well informed, but one " of the best and kindest of human beings. " There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of " northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own "... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 pages
...profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the...beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little band I have mentioned of Northern literati, men not less tenacious, generally speaking, of their own fame... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1842 - 414 pages
...refined man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the...but one of the best and kindest of human beings.' " Several gentlemen, who had been reading, laid down their books to listen to this eloquent and just... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1847 - 850 pages
...profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes — was not only one of the...surrounded by the little band of northern literati. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert,... | |
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