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| 1851
..." there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but tho will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...which his situation may best enable him to study with affect." Our author has decidedly taken advantage of his situation in observing facts which few men... | |
| Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
..."There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...situation may best enable him to study with effect." (Herschel, Discourse, [127.].) In the vocational life, for example, few are so unfavourably situated... | |
| Agriculture - 1843 - 1000 pages
...There is scarcely any well informed 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 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
..."there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...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 of... | |
| John William Carleton - 1851 - 514 pages
...' there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but tho will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...which his situation may best enable him to study with affect." Our author has decidedly taken advantage ef his situation in observing facts which few men... | |
| William Swainson - New Zealand - 1840 - 92 pages
...in his admirable ' Preliminary Discourse,' " who, if he has but the will, has not also the power, to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...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 so... | |
| John Stevens Henslow - Agriculture - 1843 - 124 pages
...There is scarcely any well informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...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 facts... | |
| William Lindsay Alexander - Anglo-Catholicism - 1843 - 498 pages
...that " there is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...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
...— " 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 stock of knowledge,...situation may best enable him to study with effect. To instance one subject which can only be effectually improved by the united observations of great... | |
| India - 1847 - 632 pages
...equal point and truth, " any well informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something essential to the general stock of knowledge,...situation may best enable him to study with effect." His scheme of desiderata the Editor concludes with the following weighty practical remarks : — "... | |
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