 This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was...  Chambers's miscellany of instructive & entertaining tractsавторы: Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 344
...also a land-surveyor) thinks this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound man of science, the most...purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 348
...this whole passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steam-engine. not only the most profound mm of science, the most successful combiner of powers...purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - Страниц: 290
...world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt—was not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes,—was not only one of the most generally well-informed,—but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1821 - Страниц: 506
...produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, was not only the most profound...purposes ; was not only one of the most generally well-informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. In his eighty-fourth year his attention... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - Страниц: 680
...effects of which, extraordinary as they ¿trendy are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt, and who was not only the most profound man of science, the...of powers, and calculator of numbers, as adapted to general purposes — was not only one of the mou generally well informed, but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - Страниц: 552
...produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound...purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the... | |
 | 1823 - Страниц: 228
...which , extraordinary as the_y already are , are perhaps only icow beginning to be felt, and •who was not only the most profound man of science , the...of powers , and calculator of numbers as adapted to general purposes , was not only one of the most generally well informed , but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - Страниц: 382
...produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound...purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed, — but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - Страниц: 382
...world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt—was not only the most profound man of science, the most...and calculator of numbers, as adapted to practical purposes,—was not only one of the most generally well-informed,—but one of the best and kindest... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1833 - Страниц: 502
...produced a change in the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound...adapted to practical purposes ; was not only one of the best informed, but one of the best and kindest of human beings. There he stood, surrounded by the little... | |
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