 I overwork my brain ; but facts compel me to conclude that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place, to see if I can anyhow give my health a good start,...  Dictionary of National Biography - Page 70edited by - 1888Full view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally 23 correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally 23 correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 416 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now f1nally correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....is a very odd thing that I have no sensation that I over' work my brain ; but facts compel me to conclude that my brain was never formed for much thinking.... | |
 | William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally correcting ray chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1888 - 584 pages
...must have had of it, when you had to go backwards and forwards. correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets. I am weary of my wort. It is a very odd thing that I have no sensation that I overwork my brain ; but facts compel me... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 pages
...— " I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1894 - 392 pages
...beetles ! Mr. Darwin is mournful at times over his own deficiencies as (ii. 150) to his friend Fox : " facts compel me to conclude that my brain was never formed for much thinking." Yet his tenacity was such that by diligence and assiduity he could take into his memory — though... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1896 - 580 pages
...improving. I can see daylight through my work, and am now finally correcting my chapters for the press ; and I hope in a month or six weeks to have proof-sheets....that my brain was never formed for much thinking. We are resolved to go for two or three months, when I have finished, to Ilkley, or some such place,... | |
 | George Milbry Gould - 1902 - 238 pages
...intellectual over-exertion that was at fault. Once Darwin recognized this when at the age of 50 he wrote: "It is a very odd thing that I have no sensation that I overwork my brain." This was when he was hardest at work on the " Origin." As if thought and laborious intellectual action... | |
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