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... given in italics , - a rendering which would unfairly exaggerate their effect . The Diary or Pocket - book , from which quotations occur in the following pages , has been of value as sup- plying a frame - work of facts round which ...
... given in italics , - a rendering which would unfairly exaggerate their effect . The Diary or Pocket - book , from which quotations occur in the following pages , has been of value as sup- plying a frame - work of facts round which ...
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... given throughout my work . To Mr. Huxley I owe a debt of thanks , not only for much kind help , but for his willing compliance with my request that he should contribute a chapter on the reception of the ' Origin of Species . ' Finally ...
... given throughout my work . To Mr. Huxley I owe a debt of thanks , not only for much kind help , but for his willing compliance with my request that he should contribute a chapter on the reception of the ' Origin of Species . ' Finally ...
Page vi
... given me the use of their illustrations . To Messrs . Maull and Fox and Messrs . Elliott and Fry 1 am also indebted for their kindness in allowing me the use of reproductions of their photographs . FRANCIS DARWIN . CAMBRIDGE , October ...
... given me the use of their illustrations . To Messrs . Maull and Fox and Messrs . Elliott and Fry 1 am also indebted for their kindness in allowing me the use of reproductions of their photographs . FRANCIS DARWIN . CAMBRIDGE , October ...
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... given to detail , and not to generalising . Again , those who knew him intimately describe him as eating remarkably little , so that he was not " a great feeder , eating a goose for his din- ner , as easily as other men do a partridge ...
... given to detail , and not to generalising . Again , those who knew him intimately describe him as eating remarkably little , so that he was not " a great feeder , eating a goose for his din- ner , as easily as other men do a partridge ...
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... given him any choice , nothing should have induced him to follow it . To the end of his life , the thought of an operation almost sickened him , and he could scarcely . endure to see a person bled - a horror which he has trans- mitted ...
... given him any choice , nothing should have induced him to follow it . To the end of his life , the thought of an operation almost sickened him , and he could scarcely . endure to see a person bled - a horror which he has trans- mitted ...
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