 It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life, that Dr. William Small of Scotland was then Professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct...  Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies - Stran viiiavtor: Thomas Jefferson - 1829Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1830 - 540 strani
...science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged an<! liberal mind. He, most happily for me, became soon...and of the system of things in which we are placed. Furturiately, the philosophical chair became vacant soon after my arrival at college, and he was appointed... | |
 | 1830 - 550 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, .with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most...his daily companion, when not engaged in the school; atid from his conversation,! got my first views of the expansion of science, and of the system of things... | |
 | 1830 - 548 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and geutlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most...and made me his daily companion, when not engaged in thescliool; and from his conversation, I got my first views of the expansion of science, and of the... | |
 | 1830 - 530 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, with u happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemunly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most...attached to me, and made me his daily companion, when riot engaged in the school ; and from his conversation, I got my first views of the expansion of science,... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 568 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He most...of science, and of the system of things in which we arc placed. Fortunately, the philosophical chair became vacant soon after my arrival at college, and... | |
 | William Linn - 1834 - 282 strani
...the conversations of this learned man, and true friend, Jefferson confesses that he first imbibed his views of the expansion of science, and of the system of things in which we are placed. Doctor Small returned to Europe in 1762, having first occupied the philosophical chair at the College,... | |
 | United States. President - 1846 - 766 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most happily for me," he adds, " became soon attached to me, and made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school... | |
 | William Henry Foote - 1850 - 584 strani
...of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communicative, correct, and gentlemanly, manners and an enlarged and liberal mind. He most...and of the system of things in which we are placed." This gentleman penned the Declaration of Independence and the Bill for Religious Liberty. The influence... | |
 | William Henry Foote - 1850 - 582 strani
...of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communicative, correct, and gentlemanly, manners and an enlarged and liberal mind. He most...and of the system of things in which we are placed." This gentleman penned the Declaration of Independence and the Bill for Religious Liberty. The influence... | |
 | United States. President - 1854 - 616 strani
...most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind. He, most happily for me," he adds, " became soon attached to me, and made me his daily companion when not engaged in the school;... | |
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