The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1887 - Naturalists |
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Page 69
... hand , was admirably expressed and quite clear . Nevertheless , our joint productions excited very little attention , and the only published notice of them which I can remember was by Professor Haughton of Dublin , whose verdict was ...
... hand , was admirably expressed and quite clear . Nevertheless , our joint productions excited very little attention , and the only published notice of them which I can remember was by Professor Haughton of Dublin , whose verdict was ...
Page 80
... hand whole pages as quickly as I possibly can , contracting half the words ; and then correct deliberately . Sentences thus scribbled down . are often better ones than I could have written deliberately . Having said thus much about my ...
... hand whole pages as quickly as I possibly can , contracting half the words ; and then correct deliberately . Sentences thus scribbled down . are often better ones than I could have written deliberately . Having said thus much about my ...
Page 81
... hand , novels which are works of the imagina- tion , though not of a very high order , have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me , and I often bless all novelists . A surprising number have been read aloud to me , and I ...
... hand , novels which are works of the imagina- tion , though not of a very high order , have been for years a wonderful relief and pleasure to me , and I often bless all novelists . A surprising number have been read aloud to me , and I ...
Page 82
... hand in favour of it ; and after a time I can generally recollect where to search for my authority . So poor in one sense is my memory , that I have never been able to remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry ...
... hand in favour of it ; and after a time I can generally recollect where to search for my authority . So poor in one sense is my memory , that I have never been able to remember for more than a few days a single date or a line of poetry ...
Page 83
... hand , I am not very sceptical , —a frame of mind which I believe to be inju- rious to the progress of science . A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time , for I have met with not a few men ...
... hand , I am not very sceptical , —a frame of mind which I believe to be inju- rious to the progress of science . A good deal of scepticism in a scientific man is advisable to avoid much loss of time , for I have met with not a few men ...
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