| Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...' 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 lehte
...' 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 lehte
...some 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...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 lehte
...constancy in 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...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 lehte
...constancy in 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...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,... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 lehte
...constancy in 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...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 - 606 lehte
...the exercise of his attention, in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked htm 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, hi a letter to Dr.... | |
| Julius Charles Hare - 1840 - 412 lehte
...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... | |
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