The only thing in which I was determined and inflexible was in the prosecution of my studies. They were perpetually interrupted, but always resumed at the first opportunity.
Mary Somerville
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- Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, edited by Martha Somerville, chapter IX, p. 140; Two complete consecutive public-domain sentences from Mary Somerville’s first-person recollections. Read chapter opening and surrounding account of her studies and timidity. Disti
- Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, edited by Martha Somerville, chapter IX, p. 140
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