The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 - Naturalists |
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... hand tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic fluid . This remark reminds me of a case showing how a witness under the most favourable cir- cumstances may be utterly mistaken . A gentleman - farmer ...
... hand tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic fluid . This remark reminds me of a case showing how a witness under the most favourable cir- cumstances may be utterly mistaken . A gentleman - farmer ...
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... hands . This taste long continued , and I became a very good shot . When at Cambridge I used to practise throwing up my gun . to my shoulder before a looking - glass to see that I threw it up straight . Another and better plan was to ...
... hands . This taste long continued , and I became a very good shot . When at Cambridge I used to practise throwing up my gun . to my shoulder before a looking - glass to see that I threw it up straight . Another and better plan was to ...
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... hand , which I read with interest . During the summer of 1826 I took a long walking tour with two friends with knap- sacks on our backs through North Wales . We walked thirty miles most days , including one day the ascent of Snowdon . I ...
... hand , which I read with interest . During the summer of 1826 I took a long walking tour with two friends with knap- sacks on our backs through North Wales . We walked thirty miles most days , including one day the ascent of Snowdon . I ...
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... hand ; then I saw a third and new kind , which I could not bear to lose , so that I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth . Alas ! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid , which burnt my tongue so that I was forced ...
... hand ; then I saw a third and new kind , which I could not bear to lose , so that I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth . Alas ! it ejected some intensely acrid fluid , which burnt my tongue so that I was forced ...
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... hand , his views about slavery were revolting . In his eyes might was right . His mind seemed to me a very narrow one ; even if all branches of science , which he despised , are excluded . It is astonishing to me that Kingsley should ...
... hand , his views about slavery were revolting . In his eyes might was right . His mind seemed to me a very narrow one ; even if all branches of science , which he despised , are excluded . It is astonishing to me that Kingsley should ...
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