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a man of unusual natural gifts
Trovatten is reputed to have been a man of unusual natural gifts and considerable eloquence.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

a man of uncommon natural genius
“Mr. John McLaren, [205] minister of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, was a man of uncommon natural genius.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

a man of unquestioned naval genius
Barclay had labored under handicaps no less heavy, but it was his destiny to match himself against a superior force and a man of unquestioned naval genius.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

and most of us never go
It has become symbolic and indirect, and most of us never go beyond the symbols; that is, what we call arithmetic is an affair of figures, not of true quantities and numbers.
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan

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