 | Biography - 1798 - 432 pages
...an itinerant merchant, had joined the more profitable one of a fortune-teller, which he performed by judicial aftrology. Every one knows with what regard...perfons of fuch a caft are treated by the inhabitants of country-villages : it cannot be furprifmg, therefore, that an untutored lad of nineteen ihould look... | |
 | History - 1802 - 502 pages
...itinerant merchant, had joined the more profitable one of a fortune-teller, •which he performed by dint of judicial aftrology. Every one knows •with what regard perfons of fuch a eaft are treated by the inhabitants of country villages : it cannot be furprifing, therefore, that... | |
 | Thomas Simpson - Calculus - 1805 - 494 pages
...performed by means of judicial aftrology. Every one knows with what regard perfons of fuel) a cufl are treated by the inhabitants of country villages...furprifing, therefore, that an untutored lad of nineteen fliotild look upon this man as a prodigy, and, regarding him in this light, fhould endeavour to ingratiate... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 518 pages
...inhahitants of country villages ; it canhot be surprising therefore that an untutored lad of nineteen should look upon this man as a prodigy, and, regarding him in this light, should endeavour to ingratiate him. sei! into his favour; in which he succeeded so well, that the sage... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 522 pages
...inhabitants of country villages ; it cannot be surprising therefore that an untutored lad of nineteen should look upon this man as a prodigy, and, regarding him in this light, should endeavour to ingratiate himself into his favour; in which he succeeded so well, that the sage... | |
 | Technology - 1825 - 428 pages
...of country villages ; it cannot be surprising, therefore, that an untutored lad of nineteen should look upon this man as a prodigy, and regarding him in this light, should endeavour to ingratiate himself into his favour ; in which he succeeded so well, that the sage... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 472 pages
...inhabitants of country villages: it cannot be surprising, therefore, that an untutored lad of nineteen should look upon this man as a prodigy, and regarding him in this light, should endeavour to ingratiate himself into his favour ; in which he succeeded so well, that the sage... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 486 pages
...of country villages : it cannot be surprising, therefore, that an uniutored lad of nineteen should look upon this man as a prodigy, and regarding him in this light, • should endeavour to ingratiate himself into his favour; in which he succeeded • so well, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1765 - 514 pages
...itinerant merchant, had joined the more profitable one of a. fortune-teller, which he performed by dint of judicial aftrology. Every one knows with what regard...look upon this man as a prodigy, and, regarding him itr this light, mould endeavour to' ingratiate himfelf into his favour; in which he fucceeded fo welly... | |
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This man, to his profeffion of an itinerant merchant, had joined the more profitable one of a fortune-teller, which he performed by means of judicial aftrology. Every one knows with what regard perfons of fuch a... 