My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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... bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender , Yet proves to me a powerful defender . When stript of that , so desperate is my case , I'm ...
... bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender , Yet proves to me a powerful defender . When stript of that , so desperate is my case , I'm ...
Page 40
... bird - nesting , some played leap - frog or other games . Here again in after years when I read " The Dream of Eugene Aram , " I always associated it with our games in the racing - field , although the place described was totally unlike ...
... bird - nesting , some played leap - frog or other games . Here again in after years when I read " The Dream of Eugene Aram , " I always associated it with our games in the racing - field , although the place described was totally unlike ...
Page 52
... has been to me has been the enabling me to understand the specific descriptions of birds and insects in that tongue , and also to appreciate the derivation from Latin of many of our common English words . If the 52 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
... has been to me has been the enabling me to understand the specific descriptions of birds and insects in that tongue , and also to appreciate the derivation from Latin of many of our common English words . If the 52 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
Page 121
... birds , looking like wild geese , came flying towards us , and as they passed overhead at a moderate height , he threw up his gun , fired both barrels , and brought them both to the ground . Of course I went up to look at them , and ...
... birds , looking like wild geese , came flying towards us , and as they passed overhead at a moderate height , he threw up his gun , fired both barrels , and brought them both to the ground . Of course I went up to look at them , and ...
Page 195
... birds , beetles , and butterflies in Borneo , the Moluccas , and the Aru Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy ...
... birds , beetles , and butterflies in Borneo , the Moluccas , and the Aru Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy ...
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A. R. Wallace acquaintance afterwards Amazon animals Aru Islands beautiful beetles birds of paradise boys Brecknockshire brother butterflies called character collections colour Darwin delight England English fact father feet forest garden gave George Silk give Greenell half heard Hertford Hoddesdon hundred insects interesting island journey kind land letter lived London look Malacca Malay Archipelago miles Moluccas months mountain native Natural Selection nature nearly Neath never obtained origin of species paper parish perhaps plants portion Radnorshire remark remember Rio Negro river rock Sarawak seemed seen side Singapore Sir Charles sister sketch slope soon Sorong species stayed summit surveying Ternate thought tion told took town tropical Uaupés valley various village voyage walk Wallace week Welsh whole wood