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" The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something... "
MacMillan's Magazine - Page 247
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 pages
...and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an ..., Volume 1

Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for meri thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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Life, Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler, L.L.D.

William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 176

1888 - 1004 pages
...even went, during the summer of 1828, with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. ... In order...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 166

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 572 pages
...chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience v.us very foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. ... In order...
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a ...

Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 pages
...sec any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very foolish, and in after years 1 have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his ...

Charles Darwin - 1896 - 580 pages
...and even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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Three Phi Beta Kappa Addresses: A College Fetich, 1883; "Shall Cromwell Have ...

Charles Francis Adams - 1907 - 224 pages
...academical studies were concerned, as completely as at Edinburgh and at school. I attempted mathematics. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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Little Masterpieces of Autobiography, Volume 3

George Iles - 1908 - 206 pages
...even went during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor ( a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do...
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