The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... seems to have had some taste for science , for he was an early member of the well - known Spalding Club ; and the celebrated antiquary Dr. Stukeley , in ' An Account of the almost entire Sceleton of a large Animal , ' & c . , published ...
... seems to have had some taste for science , for he was an early member of the well - known Spalding Club ; and the celebrated antiquary Dr. Stukeley , in ' An Account of the almost entire Sceleton of a large Animal , ' & c . , published ...
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... seem indications of traits most strikingly prominent in his own character . Yet we get no evidence in Erasmus of the ... seems to me that we do not know enough of the essential personal tone of Erasmus Dar- win's character to attempt ...
... seem indications of traits most strikingly prominent in his own character . Yet we get no evidence in Erasmus of the ... seems to me that we do not know enough of the essential personal tone of Erasmus Dar- win's character to attempt ...
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... seems like his father to have excited the warm affection of his friends . Professor Andrew Duncan spoke . . . . about him with the warmest affection forty - seven years after his death when I was a young medical student at Edinburgh ...
... seems like his father to have excited the warm affection of his friends . Professor Andrew Duncan spoke . . . . about him with the warmest affection forty - seven years after his death when I was a young medical student at Edinburgh ...
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... seems to have taken place in a state of incipient insanity . Robert Waring , the father of Charles Darwin , was born May 30 , 1766 , and entered the medical profession like his father . He studied for a few months at Leyden , and took ...
... seems to have taken place in a state of incipient insanity . Robert Waring , the father of Charles Darwin , was born May 30 , 1766 , and entered the medical profession like his father . He studied for a few months at Leyden , and took ...
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... seems to me to have had something in common with the man whom Carlyle least appreciated . The society of Erasmus Darwin had , to my mind , much the same charm as the writings of Charles Lamb . There was the same kind of playfulness ...
... seems to me to have had something in common with the man whom Carlyle least appreciated . The society of Erasmus Darwin had , to my mind , much the same charm as the writings of Charles Lamb . There was the same kind of playfulness ...
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