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" The only merit to which I lay claim in the case is that of patient research — a merit in which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and this humble faculty of patience, when rightly developed, may lead to more extraordinary developments of idea than... "
My schools and schoolmasters; or, The story of my education - Page 514
by Hugh Miller - 1860 - 558 pages
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Eliza Cook's journal, Volume 11

430 pages
...patient observation and research. As he modestly states in his autobiography, " the only merit to which 1 lay claim in the case is that of patient research...which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and this humble faculty of patience, when rightly developed, may lead to more extraordinary developments...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 33

1854 - 598 pages
...fruit of long years of patient observation and research. As he modestly states in his autobiography, " the only merit to which I lay claim in the case is...which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and this humble faculty of patience, when rightly developed, may lead to more extraordinary developments...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 33

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...fruit of long years of patient observation and research. As he modestly states in his autobiography, " the only merit to which I lay claim in the case is...which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and this humble faculty of patience, when rightly developed, may lead to more extraordinary J854.] HUGH...
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1854 - 600 pages
...strengthens the inference of M. Agassiz respecting the epoch during which the Cheiracanthus and C'heirolepis lived." All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably...tolerably tedious. Let him remember, however, that the onlymerit to which I lay claim in the case is that of patient research, — a merit in which whoever...
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Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 pages
...fruit of long years of patient observation and research. As he modestly states in his autobiography, " the only merit to which I lay claim in the case is that of patient research—a merit in which whoever wills may rival or surpass me; and this humble faculty of patience,...
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Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct

Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 470 pages
...fruit of long years of patient observation and research. As he modestly states in his autobiography, " the only merit to which I lay claim in the case is...which whoever wills may rival or surpass me ; and this humble faculty of patience, when rightly developed, may lead to more extraordinary developments...
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An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education

Hugh Miller - 1865 - 558 pages
...strengthens the inference of M. Agassiz respecting the epoch during which the Cheiracanthus and Cheirolepis lived." All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably...patient research, — a merit in which whoever wills may rivaj or surpass me ; and that this humble faculty of patience, when rightly directed, may lead to...
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Works: Schools and schoolmasters; or the story of my education, an autobiography

Hugh Miller - 1865 - 572 pages
...strengthens the inference of M. Agassiz respecting the epoch during which the Chetracanthut and Cheirolepis lived." All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably...to which I lay claim in the case is that of patient research,—a merit in which whoever wills may rival or surpass me; and that this humble faculty of...
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Golden lives, biographies, by H.A. Page

Alexander Hay Japp - 1873 - 450 pages
...confession as the following, with which he naively excuses himself for a little self-repetition : — " All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably weak...extraordinary developments of idea than even genius itself." He owed more to his moral qualities than to his intellect— patient and piercing as it was. Had it...
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Golden Lives: Biographies for the Day

H. A. Page - 1873 - 448 pages
...confession as the following, with which he naively excuses himself for a little self-repetition : — "All this will, I am afraid, appear tolerably weak...extraordinary developments of idea than even genius itself." He owed more to his moral qualities than to his intellect — patient and piercing as it was. Had it...
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