 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 700 страници
...it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with a success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. "No one doubted his meaning, and the effect was tremendous. One lady fainted and had to be carried... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1917 - 692 страници
...restless and versatile intellect — who, not content with a success in his own sphere of acti>ity, plunges into scientific questions with which he has...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice. "No one doubted his meaning, and the effect was tremendous. One lady fainted and had to be carried... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 страници
...it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal f success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." The letter above quoted continues : " The excitement was now at its height; a lady fainted and had... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 416 страници
...it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal f success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." \ The letter above quoted continues : " The excitement was now at its height ; a lady fainted and had... | |
 | 1888 - 538 страници
...whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who not content with an equivocal success in his own...acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric and to distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skillAl... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 страници
...whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal success in his...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." f * Sir John Lubbock also insisted on the embryological evidence for evolution. — FD t Mr. Fawcett... | |
 | 1895 - 512 страници
...the Literary Gazette and other periodicals. would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect who, not content with an equivocal success in his...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." Thirty-four years later, just a year ago this August, the same face was seen once again at the same... | |
 | 1907 - 284 страници
...shame in recalling, it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digression and a skillful appeal to religious prejudices. Bryan has n't had a new idea, nor abandoned... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 страници
...whom I should feel shame in recalling it would be a man; a man of restless and versatile intellect who, not content with an equivocal success in his...digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." The arguments adduced against evolution during those days were sometimes very comical, and the coutideut... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 920 страници
...it would be a man, a man of restless and versatile intellect, who, not content with an equivocal f success in his own sphere of activity, plunges into...digressions, and skilled appeals to religious prejudice." The letter above quoted continues : " The excitement was now at its height ; a lady fainted and had... | |
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I asserted — and I repeat — that a man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling, it would rather be a man — a man of restless and versatile intellect — who,... 
