 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 752 σελίδες
...is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.8 There is but little analogy between mathematics and play-acting; but I heard .the great Mrs.... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 σελίδες
...is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isaac, with Sir ISMC Newton. , equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his... | |
 | Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1860 - 618 σελίδες
...able, without fatigue, to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...had begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isaac Newton, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1862 - 804 σελίδες
...able, without fatigue, to connect inference with inference, in one long series towards a determinate end; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...had begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isaac Newton, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 σελίδες
...is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more tr patient attention than to any other talent. There is but littlis analogy between mathematics and... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 476 σελίδες
...is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged to break or let ir Isaac cwton. fall the thread which he had begun to spin. This is, LECT. in fact, what Sir Isaac,... | |
 | 1862 - 542 σελίδες
...able, without fatigue, to connect iulerouce with inference, in one long serirs toward a determinative end; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...which he had begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isasc Newton, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 σελίδες
...is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long scries towards a determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...which he had begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isaae, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius,... | |
 | George Nicol Gordon, J. D. G. - 1863 - 320 σελίδες
...able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards one determinate end ; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...more to patient attention than to any other talent." Early in the autumn of 1851 he attended the Theological Hall of the Presbyterian Church, at West River,... | |
 | Andrew Wynter - 1863 - 494 σελίδες
...able, without fatigue, to> connect inference with inference, in one long series towards a determined end, while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged...had begun to spin. This is, in fact, what Sir Isaac Newton, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius,... | |
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This is, in fact, what Sir Isaac, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. 
