 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 348 páginas
...or hear again. In his, eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 290 páginas
...Mr. Watt's improvements on the steamWgine. every subject. One gentleman was a deep philologist,—he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if...had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 552 páginas
...or hear again. In his eighty-fifth year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 páginas
...whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steamengine.— Note by CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK. had his attention alive to every one's question, his...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 382 páginas
...command. His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philolo-» gist,—he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if...had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said • the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 290 páginas
...regiments are supposed to be jealous of the high character which they have won upon service. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear...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... | |
 | Dominique François J. Arago - 1839 - 290 páginas
...regiments are supposed to be jealous of the high character which they have won upon service. Me thinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear...had been coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic,—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his... | |
 | François Arago - 1839 - 154 páginas
...or hear again. In his eighty-first year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's...another a celebrated critic, — you would have said that the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life ; — of science it... | |
 | 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...another a celebrated critic, — you would have said that the old man had studied political economy and belles-lettres all his life ; — of science it... | |
 | Boyman Boyman - 1840 - 210 páginas
...or hear again. In his eighty-fifth year,* the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's...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... | |
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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... 
