The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... essay on ' Christian Prayer and General Laws , ' the subject assigned for the Burney Prize Essay of 1873 . Much of this essay was dictated to one or other of his sisters , and it is a curious fact that his first book and his last should ...
... essay on ' Christian Prayer and General Laws , ' the subject assigned for the Burney Prize Essay of 1873 . Much of this essay was dictated to one or other of his sisters , and it is a curious fact that his first book and his last should ...
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... essay was successful , and its author was more than once claimed as a champion of faith on the strength of it . It is a very hard bit of reading , and of course has to some extent the drawback of a prize essay , a work written not ...
... essay was successful , and its author was more than once claimed as a champion of faith on the strength of it . It is a very hard bit of reading , and of course has to some extent the drawback of a prize essay , a work written not ...
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... essay than I would care to repeat , but , to tell you the simple truth , I was perfectly astonished . For example , ' In the history of the Burney Prize there have only been two equals and no superiors . ' The Vice - Chancellor told me ...
... essay than I would care to repeat , but , to tell you the simple truth , I was perfectly astonished . For example , ' In the history of the Burney Prize there have only been two equals and no superiors . ' The Vice - Chancellor told me ...
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... essay does seem to have been extraordinarily good , and yet he cannot get a second prize , because the foundation requires that every penny of the interest shall go to the first man . As this seems rather hard lines for Cunningham , I ...
... essay does seem to have been extraordinarily good , and yet he cannot get a second prize , because the foundation requires that every penny of the interest shall go to the first man . As this seems rather hard lines for Cunningham , I ...
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... essay on Perigenesis . Since you sent it I have scarcely had any time for reading , and as you said there was no hurry about returning it , I have let it stand over till this paper is off my hands . Lankester seems to have doubled up ...
... essay on Perigenesis . Since you sent it I have scarcely had any time for reading , and as you said there was no hurry about returning it , I have let it stand over till this paper is off my hands . Lankester seems to have doubled up ...
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