 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 390 pages
...was endowed above other men! I keep, (said he,) my subject constantly before mer and wait patiently till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." What an encouragement is here to the attentive and inquisitive mind, and how much ought we to rub\up... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 568 pages
...rather than any extraordinary sagacity, which he was endowed with above other men. " 1 keep," says he " the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...by little and little, into a full and clear light." Hence it is that we are able to account for the great abhorrence he had to disputing upon these points;... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...thought, than to any extraordinary sagacity. "I keep the subject constantly before me," said he, " and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. It is said of him, that whenever he had any mathematical problems or solutions in his mind, he would... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...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 made him not think... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...done worth notice was owing rather to a patience of thought, than to any extraordinary sagacity.' " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little, into a full and clear light." When engaged in any mathematical meditation, he would occasionally sit on the side of his bed halfdressed... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...industry of thinking, rather than to extraordinary sagacity above other men. " I keep," said he, " the subject constantly before me ; and wait till the...by little and little, into a full and clear light," Unvarying and unwearied attention, indeed, to any object, will in time accomplish great things; but... | |
 | Thomas Morell - Great Britain - 1821 - 542 pages
...myself in my researches to keep the subject constantly " before me, and wait, till the first davvnings open slowly, " by little and little, into a full and clear light." But that which reflects the highest honour on this great and good man is, that amidst all the consciousness... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...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...by little and little, into a full and clear light. When involved in abstruse problems, he was wholly lost to the common concerns of life, and would go... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. " I keep the subject," says he, " constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a clear light." There was, no doubt, a good deal of truth in this account of the way in which he made... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1831 - 792 pages
...female education among us. ART. XI. — JACOTOIAN SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION. Locvinr, (NETHERLANDS,) ACGCST, 1829. MY DEAR FRIEND — Years have passed since you...light.' You told me how much you had profited by this method of study, and I hare myself more than once, experienced its utility. I have just become acquainted... | |
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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. 
