 | 1879 - 530 σελίδες
...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...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 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William George Spencer - 1881 - 116 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." 2 INVENTIONAL GEOMETRY. THE science of relative... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 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 - 1882 - 640 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 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 - 270 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 - 1884 - 440 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... | |
 | Jerome Paine Bates - 1886 - 882 σελίδες
...upon 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." In Newton's case, as it is in every other, it was only by diligent application and perseverance that... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1889 - 298 σελίδες
...every one fulfil his own hest." Newton is reported to have described as his mode of working that " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait...by little and little into a full and clear light." "The secret of genius," says Emerson, "is to suffer no fiction to exist for us ; to realise all that... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1891 - 380 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
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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. 
