 | 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 870
...more world-wide and enduring fame than any of his own — viz., ' Darwin on the Origin of Species.' " Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...could read a page of it, or waste the least thought on it." The reminiscences, so far as they were biographical of Mrs Carlyle and expressive of Carlyle's... | |
 | 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 840
...Carlyle, and not unjustly, on account of these words of his upon Darwin's " Origin of Species : " — Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it. But among all the workers in pure literature who lived in England at that time, Tennyson and George... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...the present Erasmus once told me, many long years before this of Darwin on Species came up among us ! Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it. E. Darwin it was who named the late Whewell, seeing him sit, all ear (not all assent) at some of my... | |
 | J. G. HOLLAND - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 990
...admirer, Professor Tyndall, comes out here and there, as in his allusion to " Darwin on Species " : " Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it." There are a few references to American persons and things which will perhaps interest readers in this... | |
 | 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...cannot tolerate the mention of it, and with an obvious touch of envy at its popularity, he exclaims : ' Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it.' Poor Elia, with his delicate humour and fine critical faculty, is another viptim : 'Insuperable proclivity... | |
 | 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 980
...admirer, Professor Tyndall, comes out here and there, as in his allusion to " Darwin on Species " : " Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it." There are a few references to American persons and things which will perhaps interest readers in this... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...the present Erasmus once told me, many long years before this of Darwin on Species came up among us ! Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity...read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it.f E. Darwiii it was who named the late Whewell, seeing him sit, all ear (not all assent) at some... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 920
...more world-wide and enduring fame than any of his own —viz , " Darwin on the Origin of Species." " Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...could read a page of it, or waste the least thought on it." The reminiscences, so far as they were biographical of Mrs. Carlyle and expressive of Carlyle's... | |
 | 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...more world-wide and enduring fame than any of his own —viz , " Darwin on the Origin of Species." " Wonderful to me as indicating the capricious stupidity...could read a page of it, or waste the least thought on it." The reminiscences, so far as they were biographical of Mrs. Carlyle and expressive of Carlyle's... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...this present Erasmus once told me, many long years before this of Darwin on Species came up among us. Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity...a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it." comfortable in a confusion of this kind to have some easily-remembered formula which may present us... | |
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Wonderful to me, as indicating the capricious stupidity of mankind ; never could read a page of it, or waste the least thought upon it. 
