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" ... observations, and set off to the greatest advantage the pleasant anecdotes which he delivered with the same grave brow and the same calm smile playing soberly on his lips. "
James Watt - Page 236
by Andrew Carnegie - 1905 - 241 pages
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A Treatise on the Steam Engine in Its Application to Mines, Mills, Steam ...

John Bourne - 1851 - 346 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength and mild self-possession...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostures out of countenance, by the manly...
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The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Volume 1

Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...grave brow and calm smile playing soberly on his lips." Lord JeН'гeу further says that Mr. Watt " had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness...
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Practical English composition

Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pages
...effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information, which formed its main staple and characteristic. sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretensions ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment....
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Practical English composition

Richard Hiley - 1853 - 348 pages
...the condensed and inexhaustible information, which formed its main staple and characteristic. £• He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for...forwardness, parade, and pretensions ; and, indeed, nevcr failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity...
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The steam engine

Robert Scott Burn - 1854 - 214 pages
...effort indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength and mild self-possession...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostures out of countenance, by the manly plainness...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 7

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...alacrity of spirit and the social gayety which had illuminated his happiest days. It has been said, that he had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; that there was nothing of effort or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his...
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volume 7

Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1855 - 586 pages
...spirit and the social gayety which had illuminated his happiest days. . It has been said, that he bad in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; that there was nothing of effort or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his...
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The Steam Engine

Thomas Osmond Summers - 1856 - 200 pages
...effort, indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanor; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength and mild self-possession...abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension ; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostures out of countenance by the manly plainness...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1856 - 650 pages
...effort, indeed, or impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demeanour : and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession...ever recollect to have met with in any other person. Ho had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretensions...
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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1858 - 656 pages
...indeed, or " impatience, any more than of pride or levity, in his demea" nour ; and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, " and mild self-possession in his manner, than we ever recol" lect to have met with in any other person. He had in his " character the utmost abhorrence for...
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