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...branches of "physical science, might perhaps have been "conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty,...

...branches of physical science might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories...

...conjectured; but it could not have been inferred m his usual occupations, and probably is not genelly known, that he was curiously learned in many branches...languages, and familiar with their most recent literature. " His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty...

...branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories...

...branches of physical science, might, perhaps, have been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories...

...compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. .... It probably is not generally known, that he was curiously...all the details of architecture, music, and law." Watt became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1784, of the Royal Society of London in 1788,...

...might perhaps have been conjectured. But it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations that he was curiously learned in many branches of...literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories...

...branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured, but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acqtiainted, too, with most of the modern languages, and familiar with their most recent literature....

...branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally...was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, meta' physics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music,...