 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology; and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. He generally seemed, indeed, to have no choice or predilection for one subject of discourse rather... | |
 | 1841 - 736 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanic and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical theories of the... | |
 | 1843 - 350 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology ; and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...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,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1845 - 778 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. " His astonishing memory was aided, no... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - 1846 - 756 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and 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 recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. "His astonishing memory was aided, no... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1847 - 448 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticizing the measures or the matter of the German poetry. "His astonishing memory was aided, no... | |
 | Artizan club (London, England) - 1847 - 338 Seiten
...antiquity metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to bear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding for hours together the metaphysical... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 Seiten
...antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology ; and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with...criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry. It is needless to say, with these vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich and instructive... | |
| |
... might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly... 
