 | 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... | |
 | John Watkins - 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 first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light." Hence it is that we are able to account... | |
 | 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 first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light," Unvarying and unwearied attention, indeed,... | |
 | 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 till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light. When involved in abstruse problems, he was... | |
 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - 1831 - 792 pages
...' 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 had profited by... | |
 | 1831 - 794 pages
...' 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 had profited by... | |
 | 1832 - 700 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 till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' Again, in a letter to Dr Bentley, he says,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says,... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and alear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and dear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says,... | |
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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. 
