The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... months at various times in Heidelberg and other German towns , and the family performed a journey from Nice to Florence in a delightful and now bygone fashion , travelling with a vetturino . Probably the beauty of the scenery , the ...
... months at various times in Heidelberg and other German towns , and the family performed a journey from Nice to Florence in a delightful and now bygone fashion , travelling with a vetturino . Probably the beauty of the scenery , the ...
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... months were of great use to him . He was perfectly unharassed so far as pecuniary cares or family ambition were concerned , and he had abun- dant time to think . Years afterwards , Mr. Darwin said to him : Above all , Romanes ...
... months were of great use to him . He was perfectly unharassed so far as pecuniary cares or family ambition were concerned , and he had abun- dant time to think . Years afterwards , Mr. Darwin said to him : Above all , Romanes ...
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... months only remained for him to work for his Tripos , and it is not surprising that he only obtained a Second Class . In the Tripos of 1870 , in the same list among the First - Class men , Mr. Francis Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes ...
... months only remained for him to work for his Tripos , and it is not surprising that he only obtained a Second Class . In the Tripos of 1870 , in the same list among the First - Class men , Mr. Francis Darwin's name appears . Mr. Romanes ...
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... weakness , and in these months of early man- hood he showed the same almost pathetic desire to work , the same activity of thought which he displayed more than twenty years later in the last days of. 1873 9 BURNEY PRIZE.
... weakness , and in these months of early man- hood he showed the same almost pathetic desire to work , the same activity of thought which he displayed more than twenty years later in the last days of. 1873 9 BURNEY PRIZE.
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... months ago by graduating as Senior of the Moral Science Tripos . It is a great satisfaction to me that the man who was universally admitted to be the best of the Cambridge metaphysicians should have written , and that , notwithstanding ...
... months ago by graduating as Senior of the Moral Science Tripos . It is a great satisfaction to me that the man who was universally admitted to be the best of the Cambridge metaphysicians should have written , and that , notwithstanding ...
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