The Life and Letters of George John Romanes ...Longmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 391 pages |
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... whole evening , telling her stories and successfully driving away her unhappiness . The most characteristic bit appears at the end . This sort of unselfish conduct was so usual , that his little sister really forgot to thank him , nor ...
... whole evening , telling her stories and successfully driving away her unhappiness . The most characteristic bit appears at the end . This sort of unselfish conduct was so usual , that his little sister really forgot to thank him , nor ...
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... lives ; how it is in their University life they make their intellectual choice , and receive the bias which , for good or for evil , will influence their whole life , And to this raw boy , fresh from a secluded. 1870 5 CAMBRIDGE.
... lives ; how it is in their University life they make their intellectual choice , and receive the bias which , for good or for evil , will influence their whole life , And to this raw boy , fresh from a secluded. 1870 5 CAMBRIDGE.
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... whole life , deplored the lack of early training , and of mental discipline . Through these early Cambridge years he still cherished the idea of Holy Orders , and with his friend , Mr. Cautley , he had many talks about the career they ...
... whole life , deplored the lack of early training , and of mental discipline . Through these early Cambridge years he still cherished the idea of Holy Orders , and with his friend , Mr. Cautley , he had many talks about the career they ...
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... whole affair is , not so much the award , as the opinion which the adjudicators entertain of the work . I do not know how it is that , stranded on a sandbank and in a half dead- and - alive state , without thinking I was doing any ...
... whole affair is , not so much the award , as the opinion which the adjudicators entertain of the work . I do not know how it is that , stranded on a sandbank and in a half dead- and - alive state , without thinking I was doing any ...
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... whole thing ; for one of the best parts of it is , that if one member be honoured , all the members rejoice with it . ' Ever your loving Brother , GEO . J. ROMANES . During his convalescence Mr. Romanes finally abandoned the idea of a ...
... whole thing ; for one of the best parts of it is , that if one member be honoured , all the members rejoice with it . ' Ever your loving Brother , GEO . J. ROMANES . During his convalescence Mr. Romanes finally abandoned the idea of a ...
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