 ... the very life of the young creature. For some years it was undoubtedly warm work, but, considering how exceedingly unpleasant the apparition of the new-comer must have been to those who did not fall in love with him at first sight, I think it is to...  Science - Síða 15 breytti - 1880Heildartexta - Um bókina
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1880 - 660 síður
...cradle. My recollections of the period are particularly vivid ; for, having conceived a tender affection for a child of what appeared to me to be such remarkable...sight, I think it is to the credit of our age that the Avar was not fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms of opposition died away as soon... | |
 | 1915 - 288 síður
...the capacity of a sort of under-nurse, and thus came in for my share of the storms which threatened the very life of the young creature. For some years...fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms of opposition died away as soon as they did. I speak of this period as of something past and gone,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 síður
...the capacity of a sort of under-nurse, and thus came in for my share of the storms which threatened the very life of the young creature. For some years...fiercer, and that the more bitter and unscrupulous forms of opposition died away as soon as they did. I speak of this period as of something past and gone,... | |
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