| Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 páginas
...patience of thought, rather than any extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, but little and little, into a full and clear light." The readiness of his inventions... | |
| John Arliss - 1825 - 382 páginas
...attributing any thing to extraordinary ahilities, but all to patience and industry. He used to say, "I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. When involved in abstruse... | |
| William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1831 - 792 páginas
...' If I have any superiority over other men, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' You told me how much you... | |
| 1831 - 794 páginas
...' If I have any superiority over other men, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' You told me how much you... | |
| 1832 - 700 páginas
...little surprise, ' I thought I had not dined, but I now find that I have.' " " To one who had asked him on some occasion, by what means he had arrived at...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' Again, in a letter to Dr... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...the exercise of his attention, in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked him on some occasion, by what means he had arrived at...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and dear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...the exercise of his attention, in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked him on some occasion, by what means he had arrived at...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...the exercise of his attention, in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked him on some occasion, by what means he had arrived at...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and alear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1840 - 412 páginas
...patience of thought, rather than any extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open by little and little, into a full and clear light" (AP). It would be easy to pursue this... | |
| 1842 - 452 páginas
...great discoveries ; the answers given on these occasions were similar : at one time, he replied, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, little by little, into a full and clear light" But the difficulty is to command... | |
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