 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1881 - 504 pages
...Professor Henslow says that the Cambridge and Huntingdonshire marshes swarm in some seasons with Machaons and Lyccena dispar, and he will get me some. He showed...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologicum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 pages
...this country — are conveyed* in a letter to Dr. Mantel], who had sent him the original work : — ' I devoured Lamarck en voyage, as you did Sismondi,...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologicum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 850 pages
...(vol. p. 164). On March 2, 1827, he writes to the same correspondent as follows : — " I devour.-d Lamarck en voyage, as you did Sismondi, and with equal...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologicum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 670 pages
...be read" (vol. p. 164). On March 2, 1827, he writes to the same correspondent as follows : — H " I devoured Lamarck en voyage, as you did Sismondi,...be deducible were they established by observations. Hut though I admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium thcologicum which some modern writers... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 646 pages
...p. 164). On March 2, 1827, he writes to the same correspondent as follows : — [Dec. 15, 1 88 1 " I devoured Lamarck en -voyage, as you did Sismondi,...geologists who know the mighty inferences which would be dedudble were they established by observations. But though I admire even his flights, and feel none... | |
 | 1882 - 904 pages
...theories delighted me more than any novel I ever read, and much in the same way, for they addressed themselves to the imagination, at least of geologists,...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologieum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1882 - 780 pages
...Sismondi, and with equal pleasure. His theories delighted me more than any novel I ever read, and mach in the same way, for they address themselves to the...geologists who know the mighty inferences which would be dedudble were they established by observations. But though I admire even his flights, and feel none... | |
 | Henry Woodward - 1882 - 634 pages
...as the year 1827 he " devoured Lamarck," saying, " His theories delighted me more than any novel T ever read, and much in the same way, for they address themselves to the imagination. ... I am glad that he lias been courageous enough and logical enough to admit that his argument, if... | |
 | John Wesley Judd - 1910 - 202 pages
...work exclusively — he wrote to his friend Mantell as follows : — 'I devoured Lamarck en voyage his theories delighted me more than any novel I ever...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologicum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1911 - 750 pages
...last time from circuit, he wrote to his friend Mantell as follows :— ' I devoured Lamarck en voyage. His theories delighted me more than any novel I ever...admire even his flights, and feel none of the odium theologicum which some modern writers in this country have visited him with, I confess I read him rather... | |
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His theories delighted me more than any novel I ever read, and much in the same way, for they address themselves to the imagination, at least of geologists who know the mighty inferences which would be deducible were they established by observations.... 
