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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. "
The Constitution of Man - Page 47
by George Combe - 1850 - 442 pages
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The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].

Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...patience 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 slowly, but little and little, into a full and clear light." The readiness of his inventions...
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Arliss's Literary collections

John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...attributing any thing to extraordinary ahilities, but all to patience and industry. He used to say, "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. When involved in abstruse...
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American Annals of Education

William Russell, William Channing Woodbridge, Fordyce Mitchell Hubbard - Education - 1831 - 792 pages
...' If I 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 first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' You told me how much you...
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American Annals of Education and Instruction, and Journal of ..., Volume 1

Education - 1831 - 794 pages
...' If I 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 first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' You told me how much you...
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The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany, Volume 7

Phrenology - 1832 - 700 pages
...some little surprise, ' I thought I had not dined, but I now find that I have.' " " To one who had asked him on some occasion, by what means he had arrived...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.' Again, in a letter to Dr...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...constancy 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...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and dear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...constancy 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...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and alear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...constancy 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...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light." Again, in a letter to Dr. Bentley,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 606 pages
...the exercise of his attention, in order to develope the power of thought. To one who had asked htm on some occasion, by what means he had arrived at...subject constantly before me, and wait till the first dawnings open slowly by little and little into a full and clear light ." Again, hi a letter to Dr....
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The Victory of Faith and Other Sermons

Julius Charles Hare - Faith - 1840 - 412 pages
...patience 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" (AP). It would be easy to pursue this...
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