 | William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1831 - 792 pages
...have any superiority over other men, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the...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
...thought, than 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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1830 - 456 pages
...so solemnly adopted, and which he thus explicitly declares. ' I keep the subject (of investigation) constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings...by little and little, into a full and clear light.' "* Is not this the rery principle which Solomon recognises in religion, in his brief, but beautiful... | |
 | William Grisenthwaite - Genius - 1830 - 104 pages
...the subject," says the modest and amiable philosopher, "constantly before me, and wait till the Jirst dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light" How true a portraiture of Genius ! How faithful a description of its labours! And who is ignorant of... | |
 | Education - 1831 - 794 pages
...have any superiority over other men, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait till the...by little and little, into a full and clear light.' You told me how much you had profited by this tnethod of study, and I have myself more than once, experienced... | |
 | Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...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...by little and little, into a full and clear light.' Again, in a letter to Dr Bentley, he says, ' If I have done the public any service this way, it is... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...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...by little and little into a full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says, " If I have done the public any service this way, it is... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...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...slowly by little and little into a full and clear light ." Again, hi a letter to Dr. Bentley, he •ays, " If I have done the public any service this way,... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...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 and alear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says, " If I have done the public any service this... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...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 and dear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says, " If I have done the public any service this... | |
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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. 
