 | Modern culture - 1867 - 458 σελίδες
...the problem to be solved. Sir Isaac Newton thus discloses the secret of his immortal discoveries : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open, by little and little, into a full light." But corporeal agency in processes of thought has an aspect... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - 232 σελίδες
...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...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 - 438 σελίδες
...him 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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 794 σελίδες
...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...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 σελίδες
...him 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...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...' 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...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 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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,... | |
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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. 
