 I never before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit to Ilfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing in me to escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas.  Botanical Gazette - Страница 641888Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 540 страници
...The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing 1856.] The Scientific Spirit. 405 in me to escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas. The mere turns, June 185i3 fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1885 - 496 страници
...this visit to Ilfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing in ine to escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it." In conclusion,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1890 - 328 страници
...became imbued with Mr. Lewes's love of science, and, as a consequence, records in her diary the desire " now constantly growing in me to escape from all vagueness...inaccuracy, into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas." This Interval of hard work and hard study, and at a time when she was living in much isolation, was... | |
 | 1889 - 686 страници
...of the age, was finding pleasure in learning the .names of the plants of Ilfracombe as ' part of a tendency that is now constantly growing in me to escape...willows ! are we to suppose for a moment that these twoeminently clear-headed persons did not know whether they were wasting their time or not ? Nay, so... | |
 | George Eliot - 1895 - 434 страници
...before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit to Ilfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing...inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it. We have then... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1885 - 492 страници
...before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit to llfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing...inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it." In conclusion,... | |
 | George Eliot - 2000 - 458 страници
...before longed so much to know the names of things as during this visit to Ilfracombe. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing...inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it - we have then... | |
 | Gerlinde Röder-Bolton - 1998 - 304 страници
...1844. Her knowledge of contemporary scientific discourses was extensive, and in her writing she tried to "escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct, vivid ideas".39 Lewes ascribed to Goethe the same desire to "study Nature, so as to see her directly, and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 400 страници
...as I feel at this moment. I never before longed so much to know the names of things. The desire is part of the tendency that is now constantly growing...inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it. We have then... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 244 страници
...never before longed so much to know the names of things. The desire is part of the tendency that is now growing in me to escape from all vagueness and inaccuracy into the daylight of distinct vivid ideas. The mere fact of naming an object tends to give definiteness to our conception of it."21 But the mere... | |
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