| 1872 - 794 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 444 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 232 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 páginas
...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 in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that his... | |
| William George Spencer - 1876 - 118 páginas
...that 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 GEOMETRY. THE science of relative quantity,... | |
| Percy Strutt - 1877 - 480 páginas
...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...dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full clear light.' Again in a lettpr to Dr. Bentlcy, he says, ' If I have done the public any service this... | |
| William George Spencer - 1876 - 118 páginas
...that 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,... | |
| William George Spencer - 1877 - 108 páginas
...that 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,... | |
| 1879 - 530 páginas
...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...by little and little into a full and clear light." He told Dr. Pearce that he had spent thirty years at intervals in reading over all the authors, or... | |
| Church congress - 1881 - 692 páginas
...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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