| 1860 - 564 páginas
...years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these he enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the. conclusions which then seemed to him probable ; and from that time to the present he has steadily pursued the same. object, with the... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - 556 páginas
...years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these he enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to him probable ; and from that time to the present he has steadily pursued the same object, with the... | |
| 1866 - 908 páginas
...have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into...that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." If he hopes finally to solve his great problem, it is by careful experiments in pigeon fancying, and... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 770 páginas
...any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate upon the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into...steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be ' See Zoalfgist for November, 1860. excused for entering upon these personal details, as I give them... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1872 - 382 páginas
...have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into...that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." If he hopes finally to solve his great problem, it is by careful experiments in pigeon fancying, and... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 páginas
...to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketeh of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable...steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may bo excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1880 - 338 páginas
...have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into...that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." * In the latest edition this passage remains unaltered, except in one unimportant respect. What could... | |
| 1921 - 744 páginas
...have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on this subject and drew up some short notes. These I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, when they seemed to be probable; from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - 656 páginas
...any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate upon the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into...steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be ' See Zoologist for November, 1880. excused for entering upon these personal details, as I give them... | |
| Henry Calderwood - 1881 - 366 páginas
...have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into...present day I have steadily pursued the same object." * Such is Mr. Darwin's opening paragraph in the now celebrated Origin of Species. No one interested... | |
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