 | Edmund Fillingham King - Physicists - 1858 - 144 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...first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says, " If I have done the public any... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 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...first dawnings open slowly by little and little into the full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley he says, " If I have done the public any... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - Occasional sermons - 1858 - 542 pages
...of thought, rather than any extraordinary sagacity which he was endowed with above other men. I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open by little and little, into a full and clear light." It would be easy to pursue this subject, and to... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Character - 1859 - 368 pages
...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 it is in every other, only by diligent application and perseverance that... | |
 | William Gresley - Apologetics - 1861 - 424 pages
...works it out with minute induction, proving each step as he goes along. To use his own words, " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...by little and little, into a full and clear light." Darwin, fancying that he has grasped a grand idea, brings forward all his ingenuity to prove a foregone... | |
 | 1861 - 822 pages
...industry and patient thought." When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, he replied : " I keep the subject constantly before me, and wait till the...by little and little into a full and clear light." Thus was produced the Principia, to which Laplace assigns " a preeminence above all the other productions... | |
 | Church and social problems - 1880 - 762 pages
...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...undiscovered before me." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to Dr Bentlcy, in 1602, referring to his astronomical speculations,...entirely did it occupy his faculties and withdraw them from every other object. " During the two years," says Biot, " that he employed in composing his immortal... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - Education - 1867 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | Modern culture - Culture - 1867 - 458 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
