 | American essays - 1872 - 806 pages
...fix his eyes and his mind on a single object ; and Newton is said to have said, as you remember, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful, instances of what can be done by attention. But... | |
 | W. M. Wilkinson - Automatism - 1858 - 204 pages
...God." Newton said, " That to his patience he owed everything, more than to any extraordinary sagacity. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." An exact description of the mode of influx into a soul willing to receive it. " An apple plucked from... | |
 | W. M. Wilkinson - Automatism - 1858 - 206 pages
...God." Newton said, " That to his patience he owed everything, more than to any extraordinary sagacity. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." An exact description of the mode of influx into a soul willing to receive it. " An apple plucked from... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - Physicists - 1858 - 144 pages
..." By always thinking unto them ;" and at another time he thus expressed his method of proceeding, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says, " If I have done the public any... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 pages
..." By always thinking unto them ;" and at another time he thus expressed his method of proceeding, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says, " If I have done the public any... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - Occasional sermons - 1858 - 542 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 by little and little, into a full and clear light." It would be easy to pursue this subject, and to... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...unto them." At another time he thus expressed his method of study : " I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly...by little and little into a full and clear light." It was in Newton's case, as it is in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1861 - 856 pages
...nothing but industry and patient thought." When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, he replied : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." Thus was produced the Principia, to which Laplace assigns " a preeminence above all the other productions... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1861 - 424 pages
...patiently works it out with minute induction, proving each step as he goes along. To use his own words, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little, into a full and clear light." Darwin, fancying that he has grasped a grand idea, brings forward all his ingenuity to prove a foregone... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1880 - 762 pages
...bring back the more difficult combinations one by one. " I keep the subject," said Sir Isaac Newton, " constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a fresh and clear light." The whole wide English Church has in our day conceived the thought that vast... | |
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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. 
