 During the past eighteen years, the state of his health has exacted throughout an extreme caution in regard to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several...  A Life of Francis Parkman - Page 162by Charles Haight Farnham - 1901 - 394 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1888 - 934 pages
...to mental occupation, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...condition of sight, arising from kindred sources, did not permit reading or writing continuously for much more than five minutes, and often did not permit... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1880 - 506 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all. A previous work, The Conspiracy of Pontiac, was written in similar circumstances. The writer means,... | |
 | New England - 1890 - 726 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...any attempt at bookish occupation would have been suicidal. A condition of sight arising from kindred sources has also retarded the work, since it has... | |
 | American literature - 1900 - 640 pages
...histories, although he never saw a perfectly well day during his entire literary career. He himself wrote: " For two periods, each of several years, any attempt...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all." In his second part, Mr. Farnham describes how Parkman made his histories, and endeavors, successfully,... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 874 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed for two periods, each of several years,...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all. The publication of Pioneers of France and England in the New World was followed two years later (in... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 874 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed for two periods, each of several years,...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all. The publication of Pioneers of France and England in the New World was followed two years later (in... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 522 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...condition of sight arising from kindred sources has retarded the work, since it has never permitted reading or writing continuously for much more than... | |
 | Francis Parkman - History - 1983 - 1530 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all. A previous work, "The Conspiracy of Pontiac," was written in similar circumstances. The writer means,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1906 - 392 pages
...to mental application, reducing it at best within narrow and precarious limits, and often precluding it. Indeed, for two periods, each of several years,...minutes, and often has not permitted them at all. A previous work, " The Conspiracy of Pontiac," was written in similar circumstances. The writer means,... | |
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