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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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The Life of James Watt: With Selections from His Correspondence

James Patrick Muirhead - 1859 - 654 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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The English nation; or, A history of England in the lives of ..., Volume 5

Englishmen - 1863 - 912 pages
...in his demeanour : and there was a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild eelf-possrssion in his manner, than we ever recollect to have met...pretensions; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his tenguage and deportment....
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A Treatise on the Steam-engine in Its Various Applications to Mines, Mills ...

John Bourne (C. E.) - 1868 - 602 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 selfpossession...manner, than we ever recollect to have met with in аду other person. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade,...
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Biography of self-taught men [by B. B. Edwards and S. G. Bagley].

Bela Bates Edwards - 1869 - 324 pages
...the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. * * * He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretension; and, indeed, never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness...
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Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tracts, Volume 17

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 270 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 impostors out of countenance by the manly plainness...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 17-18

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1871 - 540 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 impostors out of countenance by the manly plainness...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...have met in any other person. He had the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, or pretensions, and indeed never failed to put all such...countenance by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of hia language and deportment. THOMAS DE QUINCEY. THOMAS DE QUINCEY (born AD 1786) wag one of the most...
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James Watt and the Steam Engine

1899 - 206 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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Nelson's Literature Readers, Book 2

Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 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...impostures out of countenance by the manly plainness of his language. In his temper and dispositions he was not only kind and affectionate, but generous...
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A History of Science, Volume 6

Henry Smith Williams - 1910 - 402 pages
...indeed , or of 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 impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness...
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