 | 1823 - 946 páginas
...exact information,— had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. lie had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1842 - 634 páginas
...apprehension, and a rectifying and methodizing power of understanding which extracted something valuable from all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense ; he was well skilled in chemistry and the fine arts, as well as in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics,... | |
 | 1819 - 490 páginas
...and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented... | |
 | 1825 - 458 páginas
...and exact information, —had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1819 - 610 páginas
...and exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1820 - 482 páginas
...and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1820 - 450 páginas
...exact information, — had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1820 - 494 páginas
...and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
 | 1820 - 496 páginas
...exact information, — had read BO much, or remembered what he bad read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectilying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that... | |
 | 1823 - 944 páginas
...and exact information, - had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious...— and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with... | |
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Mr. Watt was an extraordinary and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness... 
