 His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist, — he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied...  Life of James Watt - Página 85de François Arago - 1839 - 142 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 344 páginas
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 páginas
...critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life,—of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotnam, you would have sworn... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 páginas
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 páginas
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - 502 páginas
...— you would have said the old man had studied Political Economy and Belles Lettres all his lite ; of science it is unnecessary to speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | 1839 - 474 páginas
...every one's command. His * At the table of one of the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.— EDIT. talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One...countryman, you would have supposed he had been coeval with Olavers and Burley, — with the persecutors and persecuted ; and could number every shot that the... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 páginas
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 páginas
...alphabet, as if he had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic — you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak — it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1840 - 574 páginas
...celebrated critic — you " would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles " lettres all his life. Of science it is unnecessary to speak...— it was his own " distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with " your countryman, Jedediah Cleishbotham, you would have sworn... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 670 páginas
...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic, — you would have -said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres...speak, it was his own distinguished walk. And yet, Captain Clutterbuck, when he spoke with your countryman Jedediah Cleishbothnm, you would have sworn... | |
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