The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... seen how largely I am indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for the means of illustrating my father's life . The readers of these pages will , I think , be grateful to Sir Joseph for the care with which he has preserved his valuable collection ...
... seen how largely I am indebted to Sir Joseph Hooker for the means of illustrating my father's life . The readers of these pages will , I think , be grateful to Sir Joseph for the care with which he has preserved his valuable collection ...
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... seen after looking at a bright object , and " Medicinæ Doctor creatus est a clar . Para- dijs . " The archives of Leyden University are so complete that Professor Rauwenhoff is able to tell me that my grandfather lived together with a ...
... seen after looking at a bright object , and " Medicinæ Doctor creatus est a clar . Para- dijs . " The archives of Leyden University are so complete that Professor Rauwenhoff is able to tell me that my grandfather lived together with a ...
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... seen exceeded or even equalled . His sympathy was not only with the dis- tresses of others , but in a greater degree with the pleasures of all around him . This led him to be always scheming to give pleasure to others , and , though ...
... seen exceeded or even equalled . His sympathy was not only with the dis- tresses of others , but in a greater degree with the pleasures of all around him . This led him to be always scheming to give pleasure to others , and , though ...
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... seen , and my family . When forty new members ( the forty thieves as they were then called ) were added to the Athenæum Club , there was much canvassing to be one of them ; and without my having asked any one , Lord Lans- downe proposed ...
... seen , and my family . When forty new members ( the forty thieves as they were then called ) were added to the Athenæum Club , there was much canvassing to be one of them ; and without my having asked any one , Lord Lans- downe proposed ...
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... seen the paramount importance , for the sake of the patient , of keeping up the hope and with it the strength of the nurse in charge . This he sometimes found difficult to do compatibly with truth . One old gentleman , however , caused ...
... seen the paramount importance , for the sake of the patient , of keeping up the hope and with it the strength of the nurse in charge . This he sometimes found difficult to do compatibly with truth . One old gentleman , however , caused ...
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