The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 - Naturalists |
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... wish to illustrate my father's personal character . But his life was so essentially one of work , that a history of the man could not be writ- ten without following closely the career of the author . Thus it comes about that the chief ...
... wish to illustrate my father's personal character . But his life was so essentially one of work , that a history of the man could not be writ- ten without following closely the career of the author . Thus it comes about that the chief ...
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... wish to bear alone the load of my short - comings , rather than to let any of it fall on those who have done their best to lighten it . It will be seen how largely I am indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for the means of illustrating my ...
... wish to bear alone the load of my short - comings , rather than to let any of it fall on those who have done their best to lighten it . It will be seen how largely I am indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for the means of illustrating my ...
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... wish of illustrating further the character of one so sincerely beloved by all Charles Darwin's children , to reproduce a letter to the Spectator ( Sept. 3 , 1881 ) by his cousin Miss Julia Wedgwood . " A portrait from Mr. Carlyle's ...
... wish of illustrating further the character of one so sincerely beloved by all Charles Darwin's children , to reproduce a letter to the Spectator ( Sept. 3 , 1881 ) by his cousin Miss Julia Wedgwood . " A portrait from Mr. Carlyle's ...
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... wish to place this fading chaplet on his grave . " The foregoing pages give , in a fragmentary manner , as much perhaps as need be told of the family from which- Charles Darwin came , and may serve as an introduction to the ...
... wish to place this fading chaplet on his grave . " The foregoing pages give , in a fragmentary manner , as much perhaps as need be told of the family from which- Charles Darwin came , and may serve as an introduction to the ...
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... wish to travel in re- mote countries , which was ultimately fulfilled by the voyage of the Beagle . In the latter part of my school life I became passionately fond of shooting ; I do not believe that any one could have shown more zeal ...
... wish to travel in re- mote countries , which was ultimately fulfilled by the voyage of the Beagle . In the latter part of my school life I became passionately fond of shooting ; I do not believe that any one could have shown more zeal ...
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