 He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is...  The Scots Magazine - Page 1721779Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1861 - 630 pages
...of his fondness for mechanical contrivances : — I 'He was particularly curious in the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1861 - 364 pages
...experiments. He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches. 7. Having found, after repeated trials, that he could...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise and regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much time... | |
 | Theology - 1862 - 616 pages
...monastery of St. Juste, amused himself with the mechanical arts, and particularly with the construction of clocks and watches; and having found after repeated...not bring any two of them to go exactly alike, he one day exclaimed, " What an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so much blood and treasure... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1864 - 648 pages
...being in compact with invisible powers. He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated trials, that he could not bring any twjo of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1873 - 452 pages
...Huuiboldt's ' Geographic du Nouveau Continent,' vol. i. ' He was particularly curious in the construction of clocks and watches; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much... | |
 | Charles Sherwill Dawe - History - 1874 - 282 pages
...machines were his favourite occupations. He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise and regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much time... | |
 | Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pages
...being in compact with invisible powers. He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...that of his fondness for mechanical contrivances. ' He was particularly curious in the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret, on his own folly, in having bestowed so much... | |
 | James Hildyard - 1879 - 466 pages
...ASSOCIATION FOR REVISION OF THE PRAYER-BOOK. " He was particularly curious with regard to the construction of clocks and watches ; and having found, after repeated...any two of them to go exactly alike, he reflected, it is said, with a mixture of surprise as well as regret on his own folly, in having bestowed so much... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...timepieces agree 1 Robertson states that the emperor was particularly curious with regard to the mechanism of clocks and watches ; and, having found after repeated...to go exactly alike, he reflected with a mixture of surprise and regret on his own folly in having bestowed so much time and labor on the more vain attempt... | |
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