The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... importance to me and to the Rev. Mr. A— to learn how you have discovered that he is the source of my information about Holland . ' So my father had to explain the state of the case , and he supposed that Lord Shelburne was much struck ...
... importance to me and to the Rev. Mr. A— to learn how you have discovered that he is the source of my information about Holland . ' So my father had to explain the state of the case , and he supposed that Lord Shelburne was much struck ...
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... 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 him no such ...
... 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 him no such ...
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... important , as reasoning here comes into play . On first examining a new district nothing can appear more hopeless ... importance compared with the habit of energetic industry . and of concentrated attention to whatever I was engaged in ...
... important , as reasoning here comes into play . On first examining a new district nothing can appear more hopeless ... importance compared with the habit of energetic industry . and of concentrated attention to whatever I was engaged in ...
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... whole island has been up- heaved . But the line of white rock revealed to me a new and important fact , namely , that there had been afterwards subsi- dence round the craters , which had since been in 54 AUTOBIOGRAPHY .
... whole island has been up- heaved . But the line of white rock revealed to me a new and important fact , namely , that there had been afterwards subsi- dence round the craters , which had since been in 54 AUTOBIOGRAPHY .
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... important point , which my vanity has always made me regret , namely , the explanation by means of the Glacial period of the presence of the same species of plants and of some few animals on distant mountain summits and in the arctic ...
... important point , which my vanity has always made me regret , namely , the explanation by means of the Glacial period of the presence of the same species of plants and of some few animals on distant mountain summits and in the arctic ...
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