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... remember Lyell's admiration at this new classification ! ( Do not repeat this . ) I remember it , because , though I knew nothing whatever about the brain , I felt a conviction that a classification thus founded on a single character ...
... remember Lyell's admiration at this new classification ! ( Do not repeat this . ) I remember it , because , though I knew nothing whatever about the brain , I felt a conviction that a classification thus founded on a single character ...
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... remember my surprise ) I gained nothing . But I know you rank it higher , which is curious , as it did not in the least shake your belief . But enough , and more than enough . Please remember you have brought it all down on yourself ...
... remember my surprise ) I gained nothing . But I know you rank it higher , which is curious , as it did not in the least shake your belief . But enough , and more than enough . Please remember you have brought it all down on yourself ...
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... remember my surprise at the manner in which you listened to me in Hart Street on my return from the Beagle's voyage . You did me a world of good . It is horridly vexatious that so frank and apparently amiable a man as Falconer should ...
... remember my surprise at the manner in which you listened to me in Hart Street on my return from the Beagle's voyage . You did me a world of good . It is horridly vexatious that so frank and apparently amiable a man as Falconer should ...
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... remember our ignorance . I am never weary , when walking in any new adjoining district or country , of reflecting how absolutely ignorant we are why certain old plants are not there present , and other new ones are , and others in ...
... remember our ignorance . I am never weary , when walking in any new adjoining district or country , of reflecting how absolutely ignorant we are why certain old plants are not there present , and other new ones are , and others in ...
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... remember too well my endless oscillations of doubt and diffi- culty . It is to me really laughable , when I think of the years which elapsed before I saw what I believe to be the explana- tion of some parts of the case ; I believe it ...
... remember too well my endless oscillations of doubt and diffi- culty . It is to me really laughable , when I think of the years which elapsed before I saw what I believe to be the explana- tion of some parts of the case ; I believe it ...
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