 | William George Spencer - 1876 - 118 pages
...are easy. Dwell upon what the immortal Newton said of his own habit of study. " I keep," says he, " the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...first dawnings open by little and little into a full and clear light." INVENTIONAL GEOMETRY THE science of relative quantity, solid, su perficial, and linear,... | |
 | William George Spencer - 1877 - 108 pages
...are easy. Dwell upon what the immortal Newton said of his own habit of study. " I keep," says he, " the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...first dawnings open by little and little into a full and clear light." INTENTIONAL GEOMETKY. THE science of relative quantity, solid, superficial, and linear,... | |
 | Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 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 clear light.' Again in a lettpr to Dr. Bentlcy, he says,... | |
 | 1879 - 530 pages
...thought than to any native superiority of mind ; " for [added he] I accustom myself in my researches to keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." He told Dr. Pearce that he had spent thirty... | |
 | William George Spencer - 1881 - 116 pages
...are easy. Dwell upon what the immortal Newton said of his own habit of study. " I keep," says he, " the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...first dawnings open by little and little into a full and clear light." 2 INVENTIONAL GEOMETRY. THE science of relative quantity, solid, superficial, and... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 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 till the first- dawning; open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light" These are different, but certainly... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 440 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 270 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 pages
...hiir 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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly very wonderful,... | |
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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. 
