The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 - Naturalists |
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... months at Leyden , and took his M. D. * at that University on Feb. 26 , 1785. " His father " ( Erasmus ) " brought him to Shrewsbury before he was twenty - one years old ( 1787 ) , and left him £ 20 , saying , ' Let me know when you ...
... months at Leyden , and took his M. D. * at that University on Feb. 26 , 1785. " His father " ( Erasmus ) " brought him to Shrewsbury before he was twenty - one years old ( 1787 ) , and left him £ 20 , saying , ' Let me know when you ...
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... months he suddenly bolted , being heavily in debt , and was found out to be little better than an habitual swindler . Here is a case of trustfulness which not many men would have ventured on . An Irish gentleman , a complete stranger ...
... months he suddenly bolted , being heavily in debt , and was found out to be little better than an habitual swindler . Here is a case of trustfulness which not many men would have ventured on . An Irish gentleman , a complete stranger ...
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... months the widow sent for him , having dismissed the old family doctor . My father was so much surprised at this , that he asked a friend of the widow to find out why he was again consulted . The widow an- swered her friend , that ' she ...
... months the widow sent for him , having dismissed the old family doctor . My father was so much surprised at this , that he asked a friend of the widow to find out why he was again consulted . The widow an- swered her friend , that ' she ...
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... months over four years old , when we went to near Abergele for sea - bathing , and I recollect some events and places there with some little distinctness . My mother died in July 1817 , when I was a little over eight years old , and it ...
... months over four years old , when we went to near Abergele for sea - bathing , and I recollect some events and places there with some little distinctness . My mother died in July 1817 , when I was a little over eight years old , and it ...
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... month or two to pass the Little - Go , which I did easily . Again , in my last year I worked with some earnestness for my final degree of B. A. , and brushed up my Classics , together with a little Algebra and Euclid , which latter gave ...
... month or two to pass the Little - Go , which I did easily . Again , in my last year I worked with some earnestness for my final degree of B. A. , and brushed up my Classics , together with a little Algebra and Euclid , which latter gave ...
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