Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 326
, hewould often keep his eyesfixed on the wall or ceil-ing in the most profoundabstraction. No one Ihave ever known, says acadet who shared his bar-rack-room, could so per-fectly withdraw his mindfrom surrounding objectsor influences, and so thor-oughly involve his whole being in the subject under… … He Always Sat Bolt Upright. 294 Men Who Have Risen intense application of mind was naturally strengthenedby constant exercise; and month by month, and yearby year, his faculties of perception developed rapidly,until he grasped with unerring quickness the inceptivepoints of all ethical and…
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