 | Edmund Burke - History - 1878 - 650 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably occupy all my powers of contemplation for several months to come." The gallant savants of Ireland have the credit of having been the first... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1877 - 836 pages
...into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged rny attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...contemplation advantageously for several months to come. OUR INSECT FOES AN important conference was held at the Society of Arts on Tuesday afternoon on the... | |
 | History - 1878 - 676 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably occupy all my powers of contemplation for several months to come." The gallant savants of Ireland have the credit of having been the first... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1878 - 706 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably occupy all my powers of contemplation for several months to come." The gallant savants of Ireland have the credit of having been the first... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - Mathematics - 1888 - 518 pages
...into a subject which I had for years_ abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...contemplation advantageously for several months to come." Another specific instance of the same thing he mentions in his paper, "Proof of the Hitherto Undemonstrated... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1890 - 958 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...the great Sylvester, •who with Cayley outranks all English speaking mathematicians, was actually at work in our land. All youngmen who felt within themselves... | |
 | 1891 - 652 pages
...of the donor of this scholarship had rendered possible for himself. School Guardian: May 2, 1891. " Young Americans could hardly realize that the great Sylvester, who with Cayley outranks all English speaking mathematicians, was actually at work in our land. All young men who felt within themselves... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 1078 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...Hopkins University have to say about him. Says Dr. OB Halsted : " Young Americans could hardly realize that the great Sylvester, who with Cayley outranks... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester - Mathematics - 1909 - 712 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...contemplation advantageously for several months to come. I remember, too, how, in like manner, when a very young professor, fresh from the University of Cambridge,... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable time past, and will probably...contemplation advantageously for several months to come. — SYLVESTER, JJ Johns Hopkins Commemoration Day Address; Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. S, p.... | |
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In trying to throw light upon an obscure explanation in our text-book, my brain took fire, I plunged with re-quickened zeal into a subject which I had for years abandoned, and found food for thoughts which have engaged my attention for a considerable... 
