 Here then I had at last got a theory by which to work ; but I was so anxious to avoid prejudice, that I determined not for some time to write even the briefest sketch of it. In June 1842 I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief...  The Quarterly Review - Page 20edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 570 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 588 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 1004 pages
...his Autobiography], I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in thirty-five pages; and this was...astonishment that, after the amount of thought and labor bestowed on its execution, Mr. Darwin should have ever had strength of mind to set it aside,... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | 1888 - 386 pages
...of it. In June, 1842, I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in thirty-five pages ; and this was enlarged, during the summer of 1844, into one of two hundred and thirty pages, which I had fairly copied out, and still possess." — ("Life and Letters,"... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1892 - 372 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | Arthur Milnes Marshall - Evolution - 1894 - 268 pages
...of it. In June 1842, I first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil, in thirtyfive pages, and this was...during the summer of 1844 into one of 230 pages." Not till 1858 was the theory published, and then only on pressure of the strongest character being... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - Biography - 1895 - 476 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 580 pages
...first allowed myself the satisfaction of writing a very brief abstract of my theory in pencil in 35 pages ; and this was enlarged during the summer of...pages, which I had fairly copied out and still possess. But at that time I overlooked one problem of great importance ; and it is astonishing to me, except... | |
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