 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1854 - 310 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly ; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1855 - 328 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1856 - 320 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 304 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient, even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 304 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient, even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 324 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly ; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient, even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...who have been subjected to severe mental exertion. We quote the author's instance of Lord Bacon. " But at every step in the composition of his philosophical...requires a sustained effort of thought, for more than a limited period of the twentyfour hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1862 - 300 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie, Charles Hawkins - 1865 - 770 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1865 - 734 pages
...thoughts, and the conclusions at which he had arrived formerly ; and it is only at intervals that he is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion....than a very limited portion of the twenty-four hours. Such an amount of that kind of occupation must have been quite sufficient even for so powerful a mind... | |
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is called upon to make any considerable mental exertion. But at every step in the composition of his philosophical works Lord Bacon had to think, and no one can be engaged in that which requires a sustained effort of thought for more than a very limited... 
