 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...to be free, and all answered " No." I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master...on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to d1ive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...to be free, and all answered " No." I then asked him, perhaps with a sneer, whether he thought that the answer of slaves in the presence of their master...on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to diive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - English poetry - 1890 - 318 pages
...to the Beagle was a Napoleonic opportunity, and in looking back he realized its value to the full: " The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most...done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose." But one ought not to exaggerate the element of chance; and though Captain Fitz-roy had continued to... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...receiving an invitation from all the gun-room officers to mess with them. But after a few hours Fitz-Eoy showed his usual magnanimity by sending an officer...the Beagle has been by far the most important event jn my life, and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle... | |
 | Ernest Albert Parkyn - 1894 - 52 pages
...importance of the Voyage of the Beagk is, however, much best described in Darwin's own words. He says, " It has been by far the most important event in my life,...circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me thirty miles, which few uncles would have done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose. I have always felt... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - Evolution - 1894 - 392 pages
...about the Beagle in August 1831. CHAPTER VIII. CHARLES DARWIN CONTINUED. " THE voyage of the Bca/jle. has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career. — I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind ; I was led to attend closely... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 286 pages
...on the 27th of December 1831, returning to Falmouth on October 2nd, 1836. Darwin writes : " This was by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career." It was during this time that he acquired habits of energetic industry and concentrated attention. He... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1897 - 494 pages
...expedition. The voyage lasted from December 27th, 1831, to October 2d, 1836. It was, Darwin himself says, " by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career." He had great opportunities of making explorations on land whilst the ship was engaged in her surveying... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - American literature - 1900 - 468 pages
...the Beagle was a Napoleonic opportunity, and in looking back he realized its value to the full : " The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most...done, and on such a trifle as the shape of my nose." But one ought not to exaggerate the element of chance ; and though Captain Fitz-roy had continued to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...an appropriate time in Darwin's life, and of the voyage of the Beagle (1831-36) he says that it was who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking ! He had l ... I have always felt that I owe to the voyage the first real training or education of my mind.' To... | |
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Beagle" has been by far the most important event in my life, and has determined my whole career; yet it depended on so small a circumstance as my uncle offering to drive me thirty miles to Shrewsbury, which few uncles would 41 have done, and on such a... 
