 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 246 pages
...reflecting upon all sorts of fafts which would possibly 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 1 844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...which could possibly have 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 s into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable. From that period to the present... | |
 | Crime - 1921 - 356 pages
...which could possibly have any bearing on it. After 5 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 until the present day I have steadily pursued the... | |
 | George Amos Dorsey - Naturalists - 1928 - 326 pages
...of the realm of magic and evolve them himself. But he was to wait nearly four years more before "I allowed myself to speculate on the subject and drew up some short notes" — called a "brief abstract" in another place. This "abstract" or sketch of thirty-five pages, written... | |
 | United States - 1921 - 498 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew...to me probable; from that period to the present day [1859] I have steadily pursued the same object. It is hard to say which of the scholarly qualities... | |
 | Hardy Hoover - Science - 1980 - 228 pages
...possihly have any hearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the suhject, and drew up some short notes: these I enlarged in...sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me prohahle: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same ohject. I hope that... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1981 - 964 pages
...reflected] on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes. ..." Likewise, on page one of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he explains that "I... | |
 | Hadley Cantril, Albert Hadley Cantril - Psychology - 274 pages
...which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate cm the subject. and drew up some short notes: these I enlarged in l844 into a sketch of the conclusions. which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present... | |
 | Gordon Miller - Nature - 2000 - 266 pages
...reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these 1 enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period... | |
 | David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 386 pages
...reflected on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes." Likewise, on the first page of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he says, "I arrived,... | |
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... of our greatest philosophers. 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... 
