| Modern culture - 1867 - Страниц: 458
...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... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - Страниц: 444
...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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - Страниц: 438
...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 till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1872 - Страниц: 232
...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 dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly... | |
| 1872 - Страниц: 794
...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 dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly... | |
| John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly - 1873 - Страниц: 628
...faculty of patient and concentrated thought. " I keep the subject constantly before me," he said, " and wait till the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a clear light ;" a sentence which speaks to the experience of all who have accustomed themselves to habits... | |
| John Campbell Shairp, Peter Guthrie Tait, Anthony Adams-Reilly - 1873 - Страниц: 640
...faculty of patient and concentrated thought. " I keep the subject constantly before me," he said, " and wait till the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a clear light ;" a sentence which speaks to the experience of all who have accustomed themselves to habits... | |
| Percy Strutt - 1877 - Страниц: 480
...in the exercise of his attention in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked him on some occasion by what means he had arrived at his...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full clear light.' Again in a lettpr to Dr. Bentlcy,... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - Страниц: 640
...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 very... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - Страниц: 630
...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 dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." These are different, but certainly... | |
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