 | 1851
...Sir John Herschell has said that " there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but tho will, has not also the power to add something essential...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... | |
 | 1921 - 472 psl.
...therefore no need to read every bo'ok on every subject in order to be passably wellinformed. - "There is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has...situation may best enable him to study with effect." (Herschel, Discourse, [127.].) In the vocational life, for example, few are so unfavourably situated... | |
 | Henry Thomas De La Beche - 1835 - 210 psl.
...enable him to appreciate the effects of extraneous and disturbing causes. Yet," he continues, "there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but...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 psl.
...John Herschell has said that ' ' there is scarcely any well-informed person who, if he has but tho will, has not also the power to add something essential...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 - 1840 - 92 psl.
...scarcely any well-informed person," says Sir John Herschel, in his admirable ' Preliminary Discourse,' " who, if he has but the will, has not also the power,...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 - 1843 - 124 psl.
...diffusion of information, in the present age, brings into exercise. There is scarcely any well informed person, who, if he has but the will, has not also...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 - 1843 - 472 psl.
...with reference to physical science, that " there is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something...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 - 1844 - 738 psl.
...John Herschel : — " 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...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... | |
 | 1847 - 632 psl.
...scarcely," says Sir John Herschell, with equal point and truth, " any well informed person, who, if he has the will, has not also the power to add something...situation may best enable him to study with effect." His scheme of desiderata the Editor concludes with the following weighty practical remarks : — "... | |
 | Author of The village boys - 1851 - 276 psl.
...PB. ciii. CHAPTER XVII. "THERE is scarcely any well-informed person, who, if he has the will, has not the power to add something essential to the general...situation may best enable him to study with effect." This observation of Sir John Herschel* still holds true ; and of no class of persons is it more true... | |
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There is scarcely any wellinformed 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 and methodically some particular class of facts which may most... 
