 It then first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various countries visited, and this made me thrill with delight. That was a memorable hour to me, and how distinctly I can call to mind the low cliff of lava beneath which...  Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences - Page 19by Alfred Russel Wallace, Sir James Marchant - 1916 - 507 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 lehte
...Then a subject suggested itself in the geology of the countries visited, ' and this,' he writes, ' made me thrill with delight. That was a memorable...glaring hot, a few strange desert plants growing near.' Later his Captain, FitzRoy, asked him to read some of his Journal, and declared it would be worth publishing.... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1897 - 598 lehte
...afterwards subsidence round the craters, which had since been in action, and had poured forth lava. It then first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book on the geology of the various Countr1es v1s1ted,_and this made me- thrill with delight. That was a memorable hour to me, and how... | |
 | Hattie Tyng Griswold - 1898 - 398 lehte
...conception of what his life-work was to be came to him one day while resting beneath a low cliff of lava, with the sun glaring hot, a few strange desert plants...near, and with living corals in the tidal pools at his feet. Here he first thought of writing a book about the geology of the various countries visited,... | |
 | A.C. SEWARD - 1909 - 800 lehte
...Heaphy in New Zealand and other authors) awakened an intense enthusiasm, and he writes : " It then first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book...rested, with the sun glaring hot, a few strange desert » LL 1. p. 73. 1 LL ip 62. » LL ip 228. plants growing near, and with living corals in the tidal... | |
 | 1909 - 812 lehte
...expression. Then a subject suggested itself in the geology of the countries visited, "and this," he writes, "made me thrill with delight. That was a memorable...glaring hot, a few strange desert plants growing near." Later on, his captain, FitzRoy, asked him to read some of his Journal, and declared it would be worth... | |
 | 1909 - 846 lehte
...expression. Then a subject suggested itself in the geology of the countries visited, " and this," he writes, "made me thrill with delight. That was a memorable...glaring hot, a few strange desert plants growing near." Later on, his captain, FitzRoy, asked him to read some of his Journal, and declared it would be worth... | |
 | 1909 - 838 lehte
...expression. Then a subject suggested itself in the geology of the countries visited, "and this," he writes, "made me thrill with delight. That was a memorable...glaring hot, a few strange desert plants growing near." Later on, his captain, FitzRoy, asked him to read some of his Journal, and declared it would be worth... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - 1909 - 102 lehte
...afterwards read12." It was there under the spell of this great teacher that, as he has recorded, " it first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book...various countries visited, and this made me thrill with delight13." This geological ardour lasted undimmed throughout the whole of the five years of the Beagle's... | |
 | John Wesley Judd - 1910 - 202 lehte
...observations among the volcanic cones and craters of St Jago in the Cape-de-Verde Islands, he says ' It then first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book on the geology of the different countries visited, and this made me thrill with delight119.' He tells us concerning his regular... | |
 | Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin - 1958 - 402 lehte
...afterwards subsidence round the craters, which had since been in action, and had poured forth lava. It then first dawned on me that I might perhaps write a book...growing near, and with living corals in the tidal pouls at my feet. Later in the voyage, FitzRoy asked me to read some of my Journal, and declared it... | |
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