 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - 312 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, etc., etc. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious in him ; one of the sincerest, naturally honest, and most modest of men ; elder brother of Charles Darwin (the famed Darwin on Species of these... | |
 | Edward Woodall - 1884 - 100 strani
...seek us out very soon, and continues ever since to be a quiet house-friend, honestly attached. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...sincerest, naturally truest, and most modest of men. . . . E. Darwin it was who named the late Whewell, seeing him sit, all ear (not all assent) at some... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 420 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, &c., &c. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. . . . My dear one had a great favour for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, &c., &c. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. . . . My dear one had a great favour for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, &c., &c. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. . , . My dear one had a great favour for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, &c., &c. ' He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. ... My dear one had a great favour for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1891 - 374 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, etc., etc. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. . . . My dear one had a great furor for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 strani
...though Ids visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, etc. etc. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...sincerest, naturally truest, and most modest of men." " Peculiar," then, perhaps, was not on the whole a bad epithet — almost we might be allowed to say... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1894 - 472 strani
...Charles, and a friend of Thomas Carlyle, who thus delineates him in a few graphic strokes : " he had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...sincerest, naturally truest, and most modest of men." Still another representative, in the fourth generation, of this wonderful family is mentioned by Dr... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 580 strani
...though his visits latterly have been rarer and rarer, health so poor, I so occupied, &c., &c. He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious...his health quite doomed him to silence and patient idleness. . . . My dear one had a great favour for this honest Darwin always ; many a road, to shops... | |
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He had something of original and sarcastically ingenious in him, one of the sincerest, naturally truest, and most modest of men ; elder brother of Charles Darwin (the famed Darwin on Species of these days) to whom I rather prefer him for intellect, had... 
