 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1897 - 876 pages
...reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me and might have had more. He got, in brief, what expansion into such wider fields of intellect and more manifest modes of thinking and working, as my poor possibilities could yield him, and was always generously... | |
 | 1881 - 610 pages
...reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me, and might have had more. He got in brief what expansion into such wider fields...and more manful modes of thinking and working, as my poor possibilities could yield him ; and was always generously grateful to me afterwards. Friends... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - 368 pages
...reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me, and might have had more. He got in brief what expansion into such wider fields...and more manful modes of thinking and working, as my poor possibilities could yield him ; and was always generously grateful to me afterwards. Friends... | |
 | English literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me, and might have had more. He got in brief what expansion into such wider fields...and more manful modes of thinking and working, as my poor possibilities could yield him ; and was always generously grateful to me afterwards.' Arthur,... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, Scottish - 1882 - 502 pages
...reflection. He got some mathematics from me, and might have had more. He got, in brief, what expansion into wider fields of intellect and more manful modes of thinking and working my poor possibilities could yield him, and was always generously grateful to me afterwards. Friends... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - Authors, English - 1882 - 812 pages
...reflection. He got some mathematics from me, and might have had more. He got, in brief, what expansion into wider fields of intellect and more manful modes of thinking and working my poor possibilities could yield him, and was always generously grateful to me afterwards. Friends... | |
 | American periodicals - 1897 - 1016 pages
...reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me and might have had more. He got, in brief, what expansion into such wider fields of intellect and more manifest modes of thinking and working, as my poor possibilities could yield him, and was always generously... | |
 | Frances Mary Grogan Brookfield - Great Britain - 1906 - 420 pages
...said, " into solid inquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics from me and might have had more. He got, in brief, what expansion into such wider fields...intellect and more manful modes of thinking and working as my poor possibilities could lead him ; and was always generously grateful to me afterwards." When Buller... | |
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I had to prepare my lessons by way of keeping him to his work at Dunbar's. Keeping him to work was my one difficulty, if there was one, and my essential function. I tried to guide him into reading, into solid enquiry and reflection. He got some mathematics... 