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Historical and Descriptive Anecdotes of Steam-engines: And of Their ... - Page 544
by Robert Stuart, Robert Stuart Meikleham - 1829
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 12

Europe - 1823 - 946 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions &c

Decoration and ornament - 1819 - 490 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with the most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and i engineer detailing and expounding, for hours tocak | the metaphysical theories of the German logicians...
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The Edinburgh magazine, and literary miscellany, a new series of ..., Volume 5

1819 - 610 pages
...at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages — and familiar with their...criticising the .measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for ..., Volume 89, Part 2

English essays - 1819 - 800 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, nr criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided,...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 89, Part 2; Volume 126

Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...all the details of architecture, muiic, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modem languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to bear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for houn together, the metaphysical...
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The Annual biography and obituary, Volume 4

1820 - 482 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year ..., Volume 4

Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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The Annual Biography and Obituary, Volume 4

Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted too with most of the modern languages, and fiyniliar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer...
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