 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1909 - 584 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to...been hasty in coming to a decision. My work is now (1859) nearly finished; but as it will take me many more years to complete it, and as my health is... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1912 - 776 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to...steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be exfused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in... | |
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - Psychology - 1917 - 284 pages
...After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject and drew up some short notes . . . from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object." The Voyage of the "Beagle" thus stands for the forming or formulation of a specific problem in Darwin's... | |
 | Henry Festing Jones - 1919 - 590 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to...that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision" — (Origin of Species, p. I. ed. 1859). What could more completely throw us off the scent of the earlier... | |
 | Edgar James Swift - Psychology, Applied - 1919 - 410 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me probable; from that period to the present day" [1859] "I have steadily pursued the same object." Not until facts have been accumulated and ordered... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to...present day I have steadily pursued the same object. . . . My work is now (1859) nearly finished ; but as it will take me many more years to complete it,... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - Anthropology - 1922 - 216 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes ; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to...present day I have steadily pursued the same object. . . . My work is now (1859) nearly finished ; but as it will take me many more years to complete it,... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 246 pages
...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...that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision." 1 In the latest edition this passage remains unaltered, except in one unimportant respect. What could... | |
 | Ellen Hayes - Knowledge, Theory of - 1923 - 248 pages
...allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me...present day I have steadily pursued the same object." (The Origin of Species was first published in 1859.) Another impressive example of method is found... | |
 | Samuel Butler - Epic poetry, Greek - 1924 - 288 pages
...myself to speculate upon the subjeft, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 8 into a sketch of the conclusions which then seemed to me...to the present day I have steadily pursued the same obje£t. I hope I may be excused 1 Page 3. 2 Page 4. 3 It should be remembered that this was the year... | |
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After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued... 
