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Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
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[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
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- … would – but for their having ousted the Pope from his office of Interpreter-general of the Bible – …
- … indebted to him.” But instead of acknowledging any such debt – Mr Ross deemed it to be of no other …
- … Mr Ross made a certain particular of the Survey to do the office of a private remark, which I, of …
- … nor their Hydrographers, who proceeded the Admiral, in that office, have observed its dicta – nor …
- … a due registry thereof has this day been registered in my office, as duly emancipated according to …
- … ship and delivered to the people by the hands of two of the office clerks (Eurasians) whilst Mr Hare …
- … how they had been duped, and set off to the nearest office of the magistrate class to make complaint …
- … time had passed on they resorted to another magistrate’s office situated farther off from them – but …
- … a moment longer to come home as he deserved to do.” That letter they shewed to Mr Ross and requested …
- … to somewhere else” – so now read “your brother's letter and then we may have something sure to …
- … wrote to him immediately before leaving for Sumatra – a letter calculated to elicit something …
- … – not all exaggerated – and Mr R sent him back with a letter [ f.183r p.73 ] as he proposed. …
- … was not of any profitable description but of what Mr H in letter to Mr R denominated “fiddle faddle” …
- … to a note from Mr H concerning the last mentioned fugitive a letter which – Mr H sent to Mr R – …
- … ] The three or four runaways mentioned in the forgoing letter had run to apply to Mr Ross – and on …
- … from frequenting your islands &c” and in this his second letter he writes “I told you how it …
- … at present only as by the bye” – In reply to Mr Ross’ letter which he sent with the paper –Mr H …
- … the Eastern one may be seen by the following extract from a letter dated 19 th May and sent by Mr …
- … in these luting and fluting times – that – except any National Government gets mad enough to force …
- … times are likely to last until some hundred millions of the debt “National” [par] mensonge …
- … that he had purchased a Koran for the one who assumed the office of reader-expounder and chief …
- … if I had not calculated on being myself appointed to the office of Inspector-general – with a salary …
- … Copy Extract Of a letter sent to Captain Ross by Captain Harding of H.M …
- … – kind – and just in every transaction – and when the national character of the Malays (of which are …
- … of justice, be deemed of, as being a free person. In his office of “Commissioner-general” in Borneo …
- … and in the exercise of that monopoly – contracted the debt – That interest alone is justly …
- … – whilst the Tories were gorging their bellies in the National clover field that they have had no …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … shall be a man again & not a horrid grinding machine’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 25 December …
- … anything which has happened to me for some weeks’ ( letter to Albert Günther, 13 January [1870] ) …
- … corrections of style, the more grateful I shall be’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ) …
- … who wd ever have thought that I shd. turn parson?’ ( letter to H. E. Darwin, [8 February 1870] ). …
- … abt any thing so unimportant as the mind of man!’ ( letter from H. E. Darwin, [after 8 February …
- … thro’ apes & savages at the moral sense of mankind’ ( letter to F. P. Cobbe, 23 March [1870?] …
- … how metaphysics & physics form one great philosophy?’ ( letter from F. P. Cobbe, 28 March [1870 …
- … in thanks for the drawing ( Correspondence vol. 16, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1868] …
- … patients, but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March …
- … muscle’, he complained, ‘is the bane of existence!’ ( letter to William Ogle, 9 November 1870 ). …
- … to their belief that all demons and spirits were white ( letter from W. W. Reade, 9 November 1870 …
- … . . Could you make it scream without hurting it much?’ ( letter to A. D. Bartlett, 5 January [1870] …
- … or crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] …
- … Lucy Wedgwood, who sent a sketch of a baby’s brows ( letter from L. C. Wedgwood, [5 May 1870] ). …
- … is the inclination to finish my note on this subject’ ( letter from F. C. Donders, 17 May 1870 ). …
- … the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to A. R. Wallace, 14 April 1869 ). His …
- … (in retrograde direction) naturalist’ (letter to A. R.Wallace, 26 January [1870]). …
- … towards each other, though in one sense rivals’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 April [1870] ). …
- … version of the theory of descent by natural selection in a letter to Darwin, prompting much anxiety …
- … But who is to criticise them? No one but yourself’ ( letter from H. W. Bates, 20 May 1870 ). …
- … me to be able to say that I never write reviews’ ( letter to H. W. Bates, [22 May 1870] ). …
- … design. Darwin commented on Mivart’s essay in a letter to William Henry Flower: ‘I am glad …
- … time wd be wasted if I once began to answer objectors’ ( letter to W. H. Flower, 25 March [1870] ) …
- … laborious & valuable labours on the Primates’ ( letter to St G. J. Mivart, 23 April [1870] ). …
- … Ape than such an Ape differs from a lump of granite’ ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 22 April 1870 …
- … his “end” whatever may have been his “origin” ( letter from St G. J. Mivart, 25 April 1870 ). In …
- … by you in this manner than praised by many others’ ( letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 28 May [1870 …
- … a narrow margin. The defeat was seized upon as a matter of national pride by the Belgian zoologist …
- … medical statistics who worked in the registrar-general’s office, in drafting a memorandum. He asked …
- … the natural sciences tripos in December. He had fallen into debt, however, and had kept the matter …
