...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 command. His talents and fancy overflowed ou * Note by Captain Clutterbuck. Probably the ingenious author alludes to the national adage • The...

...passage refers to Mr Watt's improvements on the steamengine.—Note by CAPTAIN CLUTTERBUCK. had Ms attention alive to every one's question, his information...overflowed on every subject. One gentleman was a deep philolo-» gist,—he talked with him on the origin of the alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus...

...service. Me thinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-second year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention...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...

...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...with him on the origin of the alphabet, as if he had b•en coeval with Cadmus ; another a celebrated critic — you would have said that the old man had...

...and hear again. In his eighty-fifth yeav, the alert, kind, benevolent old man had his attention at every one's question, his information at every one's...alphabet as if he had been coeval with Cadmus : another was a celebrated critic; you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belles lettres...

...service. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-second year, the alert, kind, benevolent old man had his attention...had been coeval with Cadmus; another a celebrated critic—you would have said the old man had studied political economy and belleslettres all his life...

...— " the alert, kind, benevolent old man, his " talents and fancy overflowing on every subject, with his " attention alive to every one's question, his information at " every one's command." Here is the rest of that description, known, in all its gay and charming exuberance, wherever the name...

...service. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never see or hear again. In his eighty-second year, f the alert, kind, benevolent old man, had his attention...question, his information at every one's command. * Character ofWatt ;• see p. 406, infra. " His talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One...

...service. Methinks I yet see and hear what I shall never " see or hear again. In his eighty-second year,* the alert, " kind, benevolent old man, had his attention...question, his information at every one's command. " Hia talents and fancy overflowed on every subject. One " gentleman was a deep philologist, — he...

...emphatically, "the alert, kind, bene" volent old man," as Sir Walter Scott has so well said of him, "had his attention alive to every one's question, his " information at every one's command." So, in 1810, in answer to an announcement of "a machine, " or rather engine, lately discovered by a...