The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 |
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... remember the horror which I felt as a schoolboy in reading about Pliny ( I think ) bleeding to death in a warm bath . . " Owing to my father's power of winning confidence , many patients , especially ladies , consulted him when ...
... remember the horror which I felt as a schoolboy in reading about Pliny ( I think ) bleeding to death in a warm bath . . " Owing to my father's power of winning confidence , many patients , especially ladies , consulted him when ...
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... remember my father telling us one day , with a laugh , that several persons had asked him whether Miss - , a grand old lady in Shropshire , had called on him , so that at last he enquired why they asked him ; and he was told that Miss ...
... remember my father telling us one day , with a laugh , that several persons had asked him whether Miss - , a grand old lady in Shropshire , had called on him , so that at last he enquired why they asked him ; and he was told that Miss ...
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... remember it with the same distinctness as they remember a creation of genius ; it has in like manner enriched and sweetened life , formed a common meeting - point for those who had no other ; and , in its strong fragrance of ...
... remember it with the same distinctness as they remember a creation of genius ; it has in like manner enriched and sweetened life , formed a common meeting - point for those who had no other ; and , in its strong fragrance of ...
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... remember well a pathetic little remonstrance from her elicited by an avowal from Erasmus Darwin , that he preferred cats to dogs , which she felt a slur on her little ' Nero ; ' and the tones in which she said , ' Oh , but you are fond ...
... remember well a pathetic little remonstrance from her elicited by an avowal from Erasmus Darwin , that he preferred cats to dogs , which she felt a slur on her little ' Nero ; ' and the tones in which she said , ' Oh , but you are fond ...
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... remember hardly anything about her except her death - bed , her black velvet gown , and her curiously constructed ... remembers his bringing a flower to school and saying that his mother had taught him how by looking at the inside of the ...
... remember hardly anything about her except her death - bed , her black velvet gown , and her curiously constructed ... remembers his bringing a flower to school and saying that his mother had taught him how by looking at the inside of the ...
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