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- Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how…
- The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early…
- Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else being taught, except…
- When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the…
- It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of the…
- I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower…
- I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.…
- One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and…
- For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the…
- We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an…
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