The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... tell me that my grandfather lived together with a certain " Petrus Crompton , Anglus , " in lodgings in the Apothekersdijk . Dr. Darwin's Leyden dissertation was published in the Philosophical Transactions , ' and my father used to say ...
... tell me that my grandfather lived together with a certain " Petrus Crompton , Anglus , " in lodgings in the Apothekersdijk . Dr. Darwin's Leyden dissertation was published in the Philosophical Transactions , ' and my father used to say ...
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... tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic fluid . This remark reminds me of a case showing how a witness under the most favourable cir- cumstances may be utterly mistaken . A gentleman - farmer was ...
... tell who would thus not suffer . He himself never drank a drop of any alcoholic fluid . This remark reminds me of a case showing how a witness under the most favourable cir- cumstances may be utterly mistaken . A gentleman - farmer was ...
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... tell me many little things which he had found useful in his medical practice . Thus ladies often cried much while telling him their troubles , and thus caused much loss of his precious time . He soon found that begging them to command ...
... tell me many little things which he had found useful in his medical practice . Thus ladies often cried much while telling him their troubles , and thus caused much loss of his precious time . He soon found that begging them to command ...
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... tell me when I am dying . Now I much desire that you should attend me , if you will promise , whatever I may say , always to declare that I am not going to die . ' My father acquiesced on the understanding that his words should in fact ...
... tell me when I am dying . Now I much desire that you should attend me , if you will promise , whatever I may say , always to declare that I am not going to die . ' My father acquiesced on the understanding that his words should in fact ...
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... telling everybody that she would call and tell ' that fat old doctor very plainly what she thought of him . ' She had already called , but her courage had failed , and no one could have been more courteous and friendly . As a boy , I ...
... telling everybody that she would call and tell ' that fat old doctor very plainly what she thought of him . ' She had already called , but her courage had failed , and no one could have been more courteous and friendly . As a boy , I ...
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