My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... thought that I had no materials for any full record of my life and expe- riences . But when I set to work in earnest to get together whatever scattered memoranda I could find , the numerous letters I possessed from men of considerable ...
... thought that I had no materials for any full record of my life and expe- riences . But when I set to work in earnest to get together whatever scattered memoranda I could find , the numerous letters I possessed from men of considerable ...
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... thought it quite hopeless to begin to practise as a solicitor , and being entirely devoid of business habits , allowed himself to be persuaded into undertaking one of the most risky of literary speculations , the starting of a new ...
... thought it quite hopeless to begin to practise as a solicitor , and being entirely devoid of business habits , allowed himself to be persuaded into undertaking one of the most risky of literary speculations , the starting of a new ...
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... thoughts display , Of friends departed a memorial sweet With which their relics thus we fondly greet , ' Our minds revisit those we loved when here , Tho ' lost to sight , to memory still they're dear . ' " In consequence of this custom ...
... thoughts display , Of friends departed a memorial sweet With which their relics thus we fondly greet , ' Our minds revisit those we loved when here , Tho ' lost to sight , to memory still they're dear . ' " In consequence of this custom ...
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... thought it ought to have done . Then I got my little spade and scraped up stones off the gravel path , and with it , of course , " " some of the soft gravel , but instead of the 20 CHAPTER II USK: MY EARLIEST MEMORIES.
... thought it ought to have done . Then I got my little spade and scraped up stones off the gravel path , and with it , of course , " " some of the soft gravel , but instead of the 20 CHAPTER II USK: MY EARLIEST MEMORIES.
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... thought to be even poisonous . This is , no doubt , partly owing to its wrig- gling , snake - like motions , and its curious sucking mouth , by which it sticks on the hand and frightens people so much that they throw it away instantly ...
... thought to be even poisonous . This is , no doubt , partly owing to its wrig- gling , snake - like motions , and its curious sucking mouth , by which it sticks on the hand and frightens people so much that they throw it away instantly ...
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Page 155 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 156 - The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 112 - But bringing up the rear of this bright host A Spirit of a different aspect waved His wings, like thunder-clouds above some coast Whose barren beach with frequent wrecks is paved; His brow was like the deep when tempest-toss'd; Fierce and unfathomable thoughts engraved Eternal wrath on his immortal face, And where he gazed a gloom pervaded space.
Page 28 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 40 - Away they sped with gamesome minds And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in: Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn. Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, Turning to mirth all things of earth As only boyhood can; But the usher sat remote from all, A melancholy man!
Page 353 - every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
Page 372 - I could never have approached the completeness of his book, its vast accumulation of evidence, its overwhelming argument, and its admirable tone and spirit. I really feel thankful that it has not been left to me to give the theory to the world. Mr. Darwin has created a new science and a new philosophy : and I believe that never has such a complete illustration of a new branch of human knowledge been due to the labours and researches of a single man. Never have such vast masses of widely scattered...
Page 101 - ... that is likely to give them bad habits — with the presence of whatever is calculated to inspire them with good ones ; the consequence is, that they appear like one well-regulated family, united together by the ties of the closest affection. We heard no quarrels from the youngest to the eldest : and so strongly impressed are they with the conviction that their interest and duty are the same, and that to be happy themselves it is necessary to make those happy by whom they are surrounded, that...
Page 220 - Christian injunction of" doing to others as we would they should do unto us," uniformly observed, the whole frame of society would be cemented and consolidated into one indissoluble bond of universal brotherhood.
Page 256 - I begin to feel rather dissatisfied with a mere local collection ; little is to be learnt by it. I should like to take some one family to study thoroughly, principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species. By that means I am strongly of opinion that some definite results might be arrived at.