In the leisure thus gained he wished to " recruit his spirits, range his papers ", and prepare some important chemical investigations which he proposed to leave " as a kind of Hermetic legacy to the studious disciples of that art ", but of which he did not make known the nature.

* Winifred James ( Form 6 ) The Twins at St. Clare's to Summer Term at St. Clare ' sWinifred is a kind and quiet girl, who is very studious and extremly clever.

It was said that in his childhood, he was kind and studious, and Emperor Xuanzong was pleased with him.

In his youth, he was said to be kind, meek, and filially pious, and was studious, particularly in the Classic of Rites and the I Ching.

While on the campaign trail in 2011, Rajoy published an autobiography, En confianza ( In Confidence ), in which he recalled his studious and quiet youth, following a father who was climbing the ranks of Francisco Franco's judiciary.

His studious youth brought him extensive knowledge of the Classics, and it is known that in his childhood years he enjoyed translating Roman authors such as Livy.

Adams wrote that Sumner " was a promising genius, and a studious and virtuous youth.

Wang Shichong himself was said to be studious in his youth, particularly concentrating on military strategies.

The Band tends to close their Orgo Night performances before Furnald Hall, known among students as the more studious and reportedly " anti-social " residence hall, where the underclassmen in the Band serenade the graduating seniors with an entertaining, though vulgar, mock-hymn to Columbia, composed of quips that poke fun at the various stereotypes about the Columbia student body.

Eiffel was not a studious child, and thought his classes at the Lycée Royal in Dijon boring and a waste of time, although in his last two years, influenced by his teachers for history and literature, he began to study seriously, so that he managed to gain his baccalauréats in humanities and science.

Skilled at analysis and research, an intelligent seeker of knowledge, scientific and inventive, studious, meditating, charming personality and demeanor, love of solitude and peace, a perfectionist.

The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines research in more detail as " a studious inquiry or examination ; especially: investigation or experimentation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws ".

Jacques, although studious and largely self-educated, did not have Jean-François ' genius for language ; however, he was talented at earning a living, and supported Jean-François for most of his life.

In 1807 Dumont was admitted to the Naval Academy at Brest where he presented himself as a timid young man, very serious and studious, little interested in amusements and much more interested in studies than in military matters.

In 1280 he obtained a charter from the king allowing him to replace the secular brethren residing in the diocesan hospital of St John at Cambridge by " studious scholars "; a second charter four years later entirely differentiated these scholars from the brethren of the hospital, and for them Balsham founded and endowed the college of Peterhouse, the first Cambridge college.

He was quiet, serious, studious, introverted, and more comfortable in libraries than at public demonstrations.

Otherwise, he appears to have simply " resided at Rand, an unmarried country gentleman of studious tastes.

As a manager, Alston was noted for his studious approach to the game ( he had taught school in the off-season while in the minors ) and for signing 23 one-year contracts with the Dodgers at a time when multi-year contracts were becoming the norm in the sport.

That the studious traits which he later manifested were not altogether lacking at this time may be inferred from the fact that he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Among the forty or fifty studious listeners at these recitals, Frau Cosima Wagner, the violinist Joseph Joachim, and many other celebrities were frequently present.

Unlike Amabasadori, Korni grupa performed their own material and generally had a much more studious and serious approach to music, so Čolić immediately jumped at the opportunity.

Already at a young age he developed the duality of character that baffled critics years later: when alone he was studious and quiet, but when observed he felt he had to be the center of attention, which he invariably did through use of humor.

At that time, Planté ( described as a " studious young man full of zeal ") was at the start of his academic career, and his remarkable discovery was soon to be overshadowed by his subsequent achievements in physics.

According to Akrigg, Arundell was ' gifted and scholarly ', but by the time he had reached his 30s had failed to find any outlet for his talents and had ' sunk into a melancholic existence ', living a ' studious solitary life ' at the Wriothesley estates in Hampshire or in the family apartments at Southampton House in London.

Alden Partridge was born and raised on a family farm in Norwich, Vermont, studious and devout son of soldier Samuel Partridge, Jr., who had fought in the American Revolutionary War at Saratoga.

Soon however some of the illiterate monks of Zwiefalten made plain their dislike of the learned and studious Ziegelbauer, who therefore obtained his abbot's permission to live at another monastery of the order.

He has never lost his studious habits, and when at home he is most frequently found in his library.

He has his meals at his own times, sees people or not as he chooses, has invalid's privileges in full, a great help to a studious man.

Other students at his new school praise him and hug him for his studious nature and extraorindary background.

While in general a type of the Oriental rabbi of his age, a strict Talmudist, and a believer in the Kabbalah, his studious habits and exceptional memory awakened in him an interest in the history of rabbinical literature.

Yongqi was studious and diligent from a young age.

They were studious pupils who became doctors and lawyers.

He was such a studious apprentice that he soon became a good artist himself.

He was vicar of St Mary's, Islington ( 1662 – 91 ), rector of All-Hallows the Great, Upper Thames Street, London ( 1679 – 89 ), and in 1690 became vicar of Isleworth in Middlesex, at that time a quiet place which suited his studious temper.

They were looked at because initially Joe was meant as a character " more studious, a much tighter personality " than he eventually became.

As a child Morris was delicate but studious.

A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions.

He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers in Dublin, where he was described as studious ( his two best subjects being history and mathematics ).

Melancholy was responsible, according to Burton and others, for the wild passions and despairs of lovers, the agonies and ecstasies of religious devotees, the frenzies of madmen, and the studious abstraction exemplified by scholars such as Shakespeare or Milton.

Arthur was known to be studious, thoughtful and reserved.

Principal photography was finally underway in early 1988 and Temple brought his own ideas to the table, including peppering the background with then modern sounding pop songs, featuring an homage to The Nutty Professor and using iconic model / actress Angelyne in a brief cameo ( the director declared her " the patron Saint of Los Angeles "), but Temple's studious eye for detail caused delays on the set and according to producer Tony Garnett, " The first cut we had of the picture was a problem.

Daimler was studious, even taking extra Sunday morning classes.

This trend of playing significantly younger would continue when, in 1990, Carteris was cast in her best known role as studious school newspaper editor Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210.

He was a good student — described by his instructors as " diligent ", if not brilliant — but was not a social success, being too studious for many of his peers.

Walton was a studious young man, but his uncle actively discouraged all study, believing a studious boy to be an idle one.

Foxe was born in Boston, in Lincolnshire, England of a middlingly prominent family and seems to have been an unusually studious and devout child.

The California State Military Museum writes that Halleck " was the convention and in a lone measure its brains because he had given more studious thought to the subject than any other, and General Riley had instructed him to help frame the new constitution.

Sima Yong, in control of the situation, decided to directly take control without using Sima Ying any longer, and Sima Ying was removed from the crown prince position and replaced with another brother of Emperor Hui's -- Sima Chi the Prince of Yuzhang, who was considered studious and humble.