 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.  A Practical Course in English Composition - Стр. 149авторы: Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - Страниц: 249Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1861 - Страниц: 716
...Beagle. On its return, in 1837, he devoted himself to " patiently accumulating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it," and he has been steadily pursuing the same object ever since. (Page 9.) This work is the result of... | |
 | 1860 - Страниц: 564
...mysteries, as one of our greatest philosophers has called it ; and on his return home it occurred to him, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out...sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it. After five years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1860 - Страниц: 556
...one of our greatest philosophers has called it ; and on his return home it occurred to him, in 1 837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question...sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it. After five years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - Страниц: 638
...the clearness with which he has explained geological changes. For more than twenty years he has been patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on the origin of living things as we now behold them existing; regardless of expense and labour, lie has... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - Страниц: 770
...something might perhaps Ire made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing...After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate upon the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions... | |
 | 1883 - Страниц: 990
...greatest philosophers"; and he tells us that, soon after his return home in 1837, it occurred to him "that something might perhaps be made out on this...sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing upon it." We know from his own statement that he had already perceived that no explanation but some... | |
 | Henry Calderwood - 1881 - Страниц: 366
...and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts seemed to throw some light on the origin of species...which could possibly have any bearing on it. After ' t five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short a* .. notes;... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1881 - Страниц: 656
...something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting upon all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing...After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate upon the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - Страниц: 634
...as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers.' On his return home, it occurred to him, in 1837, ' that something might, perhaps, be made...possibly have any bearing on it.' After five years' work, he allowed himself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these he enlarged in... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1882 - Страниц: 900
...been called by one of our greatest " Philosophers ;" and that on his return home it occurred to him " that something might perhaps be made out on this*'...have any bearing on it." " After five years' work," he continues, " I allowed myself " to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; " these... | |
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