 There is scarcely any wellinformed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly and methodically some particular class of facts which may most...  The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Page 330edited by - 1851Full view - About this book
 | 1851
...the natural history and savago tribes of that far distent country. Mr. Gordon Gumming has converted a wild and unknown wilderness into a district teeming...affect." Our author has decidedly taken advantage of his situation in observing facts which few men of education have ever had so grand an opportunity... | |
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...to be passably wellinformed. - "There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." (Herschel, Discourse, [127.].) In the vocational life, for example, few are so unfavourably... | |
 | Agriculture - 1843 - 1000 pages
...present age, brings into exercise. There is scarcely any well informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential...stock of knowledge, if he will only observe regularly aud methodically some particular class of facts which may most excite bis attention, or which his situation... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - Geology - 1835 - 210 pages
...disturbing causes. Yet," he continues, "there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect. To instance one or two subjects which can only be effectually improved by the united observations... | |
 | William Swainson - New Zealand - 1840 - 92 pages
...person," says Sir John Herschel, in his admirable ' Preliminary Discourse,' " who, if he has but the will, has not also the power, to add something essential...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." The truth of this observation is so obvious, and the practical value of its general application... | |
 | John Stevens Henslow - Agriculture - 1843 - 124 pages
...present age, brings into exercise. There is scarcely any well informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." May I then advise you to omit no opportunity of keeping an exact register of all the positive... | |
 | William Lindsay Alexander - Anglo-Catholicism - 1843 - 472 pages
...reference to physical science, that " there is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something essential...class of facts which may most excite his attention, and which his situation may best enable him to study with effect,"1 so may we say, in reference to... | |
 | Henry Stephens - Business & Economics - 1844 - 738 pages
...John Herschel : — " There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not the power to add something essential to the general...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect. To instance one subject which can only be effectually improved by the united observations of... | |
 | India - 1847 - 632 pages
...says Sir John Herschell, with equal point and truth, " any well informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something essential...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." His scheme of desiderata the Editor concludes with the following weighty practical remarks... | |
 | Author of The village boys - Children's literature - 1851 - 276 pages
...PB. ciii. CHAPTER XVII. "THERE is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has the will, has not the power to add something essential to the general...which his situation may best enable him to study with effect." This observation of Sir John Herschel* still holds true ; and of no class of persons is it... | |
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