The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1 |
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... told me that he at first hated his profession so much that if he had been sure of the smallest pittance , or if his father had given him any choice , nothing should have induced him to follow it . To the end of his life , the thought of ...
... told me that he at first hated his profession so much that if he had been sure of the smallest pittance , or if his father had given him any choice , nothing should have induced him to follow it . To the end of his life , the thought of ...
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... told my sisters on no account to invite him or his family to our house ; for he felt sure that the man was not to be ... told you ; we thought that no human being knew the fact except ourselves ! ' My father told me the story many years ...
... told my sisters on no account to invite him or his family to our house ; for he felt sure that the man was not to be ... told you ; we thought that no human being knew the fact except ourselves ! ' My father told me the story many years ...
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... think that he must have told the story to his children ; for Sir C. Lyell asked me many years ago why the Marquis of Lansdowne ( the son or grand- son of the first marquis ) felt so much interest 14 THE DARWIN FAMILY .
... think that he must have told the story to his children ; for Sir C. Lyell asked me many years ago why the Marquis of Lansdowne ( the son or grand- son of the first marquis ) felt so much interest 14 THE DARWIN FAMILY .
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... told that a young doctor in Shrewsbury , who disliked my father , used to say that he was wholly unscientific , but owned that his power of predict- ing the end of an illness was unparalleled . Formerly when he thought that I should be ...
... told that a young doctor in Shrewsbury , who disliked my father , used to say that he was wholly unscientific , but owned that his power of predict- ing the end of an illness was unparalleled . Formerly when he thought that I should be ...
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... told the wife My father took a different view and maintained that the * This belief still survives , and was mentioned to my brother in 1884 by an old inhabitant of Shrewsbury . - F . D. that the illness was of such a nature that it 16 ...
... told the wife My father took a different view and maintained that the * This belief still survives , and was mentioned to my brother in 1884 by an old inhabitant of Shrewsbury . - F . D. that the illness was of such a nature that it 16 ...
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