| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1890 - 584 pągines
...it is not too much to say that I felt at once the importance. An electric circuit seemed to clote ; and a spark flashed forth the herald (as I foresaw...and work by myself, if spared, and, at all events, oa the part of *, liter* if I should even be allowed to live long enough distinctly to communicate... | |
| Astronomische Gesellschaft (Germany) - 1894 - 650 pągines
...his mind in an instant, while he was walking to Dublin from the Observatory on the 161h October 1843 ("an electric circuit seemed to close and a spark...to come of definitely directed thought and work"), and he could not resist the temptation then and there to scratch with a knife the first of the above... | |
| Robert Stawell Ball - 1895 - 400 pągines
...going on in my mind which gave at last a result, whereof it is not too much to say that I felt at once the importance. An electric circuit seemed to close...long years to come of definitely directed thought and'work by myself, if spared, and, at all events, on the part of others if I should even be allowed... | |
| John Stillwell - 2004 - 576 pągines
...undercurrent of thought was going on in my mind, which gave at last a result ... An electric current seemed to close, and a spark flashed forth, the herald...years to come of definitely directed thought and work . . . I pulled out on the spot a pocket-book, which still exists, and made an entry there and then.... | |
| Hans Wußing - 2008 - 529 pągines
...whereof it is not too much to say that I felt at once the importance. An electric circuit seemed to dose; and a spark flashed forth, the herald (as I foresaw,...of definitely directed thought and work, by myself ij spared, and at all events on the part of others, if I should even be allowed to live long enough... | |
| Joseph L. Awange, Erik W. Grafarend - 2005 - 352 pągines
...going on in my mind, which gave at last a result, whereof it is not too much to say that I felt at once the importance. An electric circuit seemed to close;...spared, and at all events on the part of others, if should even be allowed to live long enough distinetly to communicate the discovery. Nor could I resist... | |
| Brian E. Blank, Steven George Krantz - 2006 - 474 pągines
...the Royal Canal . ... An electric current seemed to close; and a spark flashed forth, the herald . .. of many long years to come of definitely directed thought and work — Nor could I resist the impulse to cut with a knife on a stone of Brougham Bridge . . . the fundamental... | |
| Israel Kleiner - 2007 - 168 pągines
...going on in my mind, which gave at last a result, whereof it is not too much to say that I felt at once the importance. An electric circuit seemed to close;...thought and work, by myself if spared, and at all events by others, if I should even be allowed to live long enough distinctly to communicate the discovery.... | |
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