The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... person of curiosity , of a human sceleton impressed in stone , found lately by the rector of Elston , ' & c . Stukeley then speaks of it as a great rarity , ' the like whereof has not been observed before in this island to my knowledge ...
... person of curiosity , of a human sceleton impressed in stone , found lately by the rector of Elston , ' & c . Stukeley then speaks of it as a great rarity , ' the like whereof has not been observed before in this island to my knowledge ...
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... person bled - a horror which he has trans- mitted to me and I remember the horror which I felt as a schoolboy in reading about Pliny ( I think ) bleeding to death in a warm bath . . . . " Owing to my father's power of winning confidence ...
... person bled - a horror which he has trans- mitted to me and I remember the horror which I felt as a schoolboy in reading about Pliny ( I think ) bleeding to death in a warm bath . . . . " Owing to my father's power of winning confidence ...
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... persons who could drink largely during their whole lives without apparently suffering any evil effects , and he believed that he could often before- hand tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic ...
... persons who could drink largely during their whole lives without apparently suffering any evil effects , and he believed that he could often before- hand tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic ...
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... persons in Shropshire ; and he once told me that this power annoyed him ; for if he once heard a date , he could not forget it ; and thus the deaths of many friends were often recalled to his mind . Owing to his strong memory he knew an ...
... persons in Shropshire ; and he once told me that this power annoyed him ; for if he once heard a date , he could not forget it ; and thus the deaths of many friends were often recalled to his mind . Owing to his strong memory he knew an ...
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... persons were much afraid of him . I remember my father telling us one day , with a laugh , that several persons had asked him whether Miss a grand old lady in Shropshire , had called on him , so that at last he enquired why they asked ...
... persons were much afraid of him . I remember my father telling us one day , with a laugh , that several persons had asked him whether Miss a grand old lady in Shropshire , had called on him , so that at last he enquired why they asked ...
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