 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1815 - 474 pages
...reply, whieh was both modest and judieious, that, if he had made any improvements in those seienees, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. Whatever be the effeets whieh attention may produee, and I apprehend they are far beyond what is eommonly believed,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 322 pages
...reply, which was both modest and judicious, that, if he had made any improvements in those sciences, it was owing more to patient attention than to any...far beyond what is commonly believed, it is for the most part in our power. Every man knows that he can turn his attention to this subject or to that,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Act (Philosophy). - 1827 - 706 pages
...reply, which was both modest and judicious, That, if he had made any improvements in those sciences, it was owing more to patient attention than to any...far beyond what is commonly believed,) it is for the most part in our power. Every man knows that he can turn his attention to this subject or to that,... | |
 | Forbes Winslow - Brain - 1860 - 618 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied, 'that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent.' "' No sound knowledge of objects exterior to ourselves, no right appreciation of normal conditions... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1862 - 804 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied, that if he Lad made any discoveries it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. There is, however, a certain morbid attention, when directed towards supposed ailments of the body... | |
 | John Timbs - Death - 1861 - 302 pages
...one who complimented Sir Isaac Newton on his genius, he replied, that if he aad made any discoveries it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. There is out little analogy between mathematics and play-acting ; but I heard the great Mrs. Siddons,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 626 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. There is but little analogy between mathematics and play-acting ; but I heard the great Mrs. Siddons,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1861 - 476 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." There is but little analogy between mathematics and play-acting ; but I heard the great Mrs Siddons,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - First philosophy - 1862 - 584 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. There is but little analogy between mathematics and play-acting ; but I heard the great Mrs. Siddons,... | |
 | Fraternal organizations - 1862 - 542 pages
...admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied, that if he had made any discoveries it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent." Concentration and prolongation of the attention to any given subject is unquestionably one of the most... | |
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Isaac, with equal modesty and shrewdness, himself admitted. To one who complimented him on his genius, he replied that if he had made any discoveries, it was owing more to patient attention than to any other talent. 
