The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 - Naturalists |
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... dear old Philos " -I imagine Philos ( Philosopher ) was a relic of the days when they worked at chemistry in the tool - house at Shrewsbury - a time of which he always preserved a pleas- ant memory . Erasmus being rather more than four ...
... dear old Philos " -I imagine Philos ( Philosopher ) was a relic of the days when they worked at chemistry in the tool - house at Shrewsbury - a time of which he always preserved a pleas- ant memory . Erasmus being rather more than four ...
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... dear old friend Lady Cork has been over- looked , " and he said this in such a manner that no one could for a moment doubt that he meant that his dear old friend had been overlooked by the devil . How he managed to ex- press this I know ...
... dear old friend Lady Cork has been over- looked , " and he said this in such a manner that no one could for a moment doubt that he meant that his dear old friend had been overlooked by the devil . How he managed to ex- press this I know ...
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... dear face now rises before me , as she used sometimes to come running downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure . Even when playing with her cousins , when her joyousness ...
... dear face now rises before me , as she used sometimes to come running downstairs with a stolen pinch of snuff for me her whole form radiant with the pleasure of giving pleasure . Even when playing with her cousins , when her joyousness ...
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... dear lips to me . " We have lost the joy of the household , and the solace of our old age . She must have known how we loved her . Oh , that she could now know how deeply , how tenderly , we do still and shall ever love her dear joyous ...
... dear lips to me . " We have lost the joy of the household , and the solace of our old age . She must have known how we loved her . Oh , that she could now know how deeply , how tenderly , we do still and shall ever love her dear joyous ...
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... dear old Fox , Most sincerely yours , C. DARWIN . [ Later on in the Lent term he writes to Fox : - " I am leading a quiet everyday sort of a life ; a little of Gibbon's History in the morning , and a good deal of Van John in the evening ...
... dear old Fox , Most sincerely yours , C. DARWIN . [ Later on in the Lent term he writes to Fox : - " I am leading a quiet everyday sort of a life ; a little of Gibbon's History in the morning , and a good deal of Van John in the evening ...
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