 | 1860 - 564 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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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On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself... 
