 | 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
...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 for the great abhorrence he had to disputing upon these points;... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...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, to any object, will in time accomplish great things; but... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 530 pages
...of thought, than to any extraordinary sagacity.' " 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 engaged in any mathematical meditation, he would occasionally sit on the side of his bed halfdressed... | |
 | 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
...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 wholly lost to the common concerns of life, and would go... | |
 | Precept - Great Britain - 1825 - 302 pages
...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
...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 this method of study, and I hare myself more than once, experienced... | |
 | John Thornton - 1829 - 228 pages
...to natural quickness of intellect. " I keep the subject constantly before me," said he, " and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a clear light." t ; Locke and Newton were possessed of preeminent abilities ; but when we hear them state... | |
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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. 
