My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 2. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... hand , writing his books and correcting the MSS . and the proofs in the very careful manner he always practised was most wearying and distasteful to him . On February 23 , 1867 , he wrote to me asking if I could solve a difficulty for ...
... hand , writing his books and correcting the MSS . and the proofs in the very careful manner he always practised was most wearying and distasteful to him . On February 23 , 1867 , he wrote to me asking if I could solve a difficulty for ...
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... hand , was , and is , that there is a difference in kind , intellectually and morally , between man and other animals ; and that while his body was undoubt- edly developed by the continuous modification of some ances- tral animal form ...
... hand , was , and is , that there is a difference in kind , intellectually and morally , between man and other animals ; and that while his body was undoubt- edly developed by the continuous modification of some ances- tral animal form ...
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... hand , and appeal to authority both for facts and conclusions from them . And because I was thus ignorant , and because I had a positive distaste for all forms of anatomical and physiological experi- ment , I perhaps over - estimated ...
... hand , and appeal to authority both for facts and conclusions from them . And because I was thus ignorant , and because I had a positive distaste for all forms of anatomical and physiological experi- ment , I perhaps over - estimated ...
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... hand upon his heart and say he has determined the relation of the saporous vibrations of the jelly to those of the hare ? My own researches on this point have deepened my natural humility , and I now eat my currant - jelly with the ...
... hand upon his heart and say he has determined the relation of the saporous vibrations of the jelly to those of the hare ? My own researches on this point have deepened my natural humility , and I now eat my currant - jelly with the ...
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... hands , it was returned to me with the request that I would strike out of it two or three short passages , amounting altogether to hardly a page of the Linnæan Journal . I declined to do this , for the obnoxious passages summarized my ...
... hands , it was returned to me with the request that I would strike out of it two or three short passages , amounting altogether to hardly a page of the Linnæan Journal . I declined to do this , for the obnoxious passages summarized my ...
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