 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1840 - 508 pages
...though thoughtful, seldom excited much expectation in those to whom he was unknown. In his conversation there appears to have been little either very remarkable...patient and continuous thought rather than to any peculiar genius with which nature had endowed him, he looked upon himself and his labours in a very... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...immediately discovered in him, which at once both surprised and charmed me. Neither his extreme great age nor his universal reputation had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated. Of this I had occasion to have almost daily experience. The remarks I continually sent him by letters... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1848 - 606 pages
...adds Pemberton, still further, "which at once both surprised and charmed me. Neither his extreme great age, nor his universal reputation had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated. Of this I had occasion to have almost daily experience. The remarks I continually sent him by letters... | |
 | 860 pages
...and amidst the great variety of books he had before him, that which he studied most was the Bible. Ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the ' effect of patient and continuous thought, j rather than toanypeculiargenius with which I nature had endowed him. he looked upon himself and his... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 584 pages
...immediately discovered in him, which at once both surprised and charmed me. Neither his extreme great age, nor his universal reputation, had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated. Of this I had occasion to have almost daily experience. The remarks I continually sent him by letters... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 pages
...immediately discovered in him, which at once both surprised and charmed me. Neither his extreme great age, nor his universal reputation, had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated. Of this I had occasion to have almost daily experience. The remarks I continually sent him by letters... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 322 pages
...his construction of telescopes,* etc. But we cannot leave him without remarking that late in life, ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect...patient and continuous thought rather than to any peculiar genius with which nature had endowed him, he looked upon himself and his labors in a very... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 332 pages
...his construction of telescopes,* etc. But we cannot leave him without remarking that late in life, ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect...patient and continuous thought rather than to any peculiar genius with which nature had endowed him, he looked upon himself and his labors in a very... | |
 | John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 332 pages
...his construction of telescopes,* etc. But we cannot leave him without remarking that late in life, ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect...patient and continuous thought rather than to any peculiar genius with which nature had endowed him, he looked upon himself and his labors in a very... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 372 pages
...; his construction of telescopes,* &c. But we cannot leave him without remarking that late in life, ascribing whatever he had accomplished to the effect...patient and continuous thought rather than to any peculiar genius with which nature had endowed him, he looked upon himself and his labours in a very... | |
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there appears to have been little either very remarkable or agreeable; but we have the testimony of Dr. Pemberton that ' neither his age nor his universal reputation had rendered him stiff in opinion, or in any degree elated." Ascribing whatever he had... 
