 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have...found this * Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood's house in Surrey. 3 difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. I was... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 420 pages
...thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this diff1cult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. I was... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 920 pages
...thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. I was... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...was intended to be seen only by his children and children's children, and that he should say : — I have attempted to write the following account of...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. (Vol.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1888 - 572 pages
...— plain Charles Darwin. by by his children and children's children, and that he should say: — ' 1 have attempted to write the following account of myself,...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.' — Vol.... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...autobiography, a brief sketch of his life, written by Darwin for his children — written, as he says, "as if I were a dead man in another world looking back on my life." Then follows a series of reminiscences, by his children, illustrating his character, habits,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1888 - 426 pages
...thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have read even ' Mr. Hensleigh Wedgwood's house in Surrey. so short and dull a sketch of the mind of my grandfather,... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
..." written originally for his children without any thought of its publication," the author says : " I have attempted to write the following account of...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me." (Vol. I., p. '25.) A marked characteristic of this autobiography... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...thought that the attempt would amuse me, and might possibly interest my children or their children. I know that it would have interested me greatly to have...looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. I was... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - Autobiography - 1909 - 470 pages
...I have thought the attempt might amuse me or might possibly interest my children," goes on to say: "I have attempted to write the following account of...man in another world looking back at my own life." Even Gozzi, who took memoir writing so lightly that he names his book "Memorie inutili della vita di... | |
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. 
