 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 254 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, meta' physics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music,... | |
 | Historical reader - 1880 - 212 pages
...information which he poured out upon it, without effort or hesitation. 5. Nor was this 'promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...not have been inferred, from his usual occupations, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, 'metaphysics, medicine, t . — ac: ai.... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1881 - 412 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was cariously learned in many branches of antiouitj, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Great Britain - 1881 - 506 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...in most of the branches of physical science, might have been conjectured \. but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - Civilization, Anglo-Saxon - 1882 - 514 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...in most of the branches of physical science, might have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - American literature - 1884 - 988 pages
...out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confmed in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary...occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was c triously learned in many branches of antiouitj, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...conversation with him had been that which he had been last occupied in studying. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to...conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his casual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - Industrial arts - 1912 - 408 pages
...the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined, in any degree,...skilled in chemistry, and the arts, and in most of the [107] branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured; but it could not have been... | |
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... had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting ; such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and... 
