Comments for Turtle Reader » The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin http://www.turtlereader.com Slow and steady, page by page... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:32:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 62 of 188 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-62-of-188/#comment-424 ScottS-M Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:21:07 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-62-of-188/#comment-424 Pretty funny to think how close Darwin was to not going. Pretty funny to think how close Darwin was to not going.

]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 60 of 188 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-60-of-188/#comment-423 ScottS-M Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:24:49 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-60-of-188/#comment-423 Now this is the stuff I was waiting for. Before now was ok but a bit dry. Hopefully it starts picking up from here. Now this is the stuff I was waiting for. Before now was ok but a bit dry. Hopefully it starts picking up from here.

]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 30 of 188 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-30-of-188/#comment-388 TurtleReader Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:40:52 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-30-of-188/#comment-388 <dl><dt><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/alpenstock" rel="nofollow">alpenstock</a></dt><dd>A long staff with an iron point, used by mountain climbers</dd></dl>
alpenstock
A long staff with an iron point, used by mountain climbers
]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 26 of 188 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-26-of-188/#comment-371 TurtleReader Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:28:14 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-26-of-188/#comment-371 <dl><dt><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Nunc+dimittis" rel="nofollow">Nunc Dimittis</a></dt><dd>A Christian canticle or hymn using the words of Simeon in Luke 2:29-32, beginning "Nunc dimittis servum tuum" ("Now lettest thou thy servant depart").</dd></dl>
Nunc Dimittis
A Christian canticle or hymn using the words of Simeon in Luke 2:29-32, beginning “Nunc dimittis servum tuum” (”Now lettest thou thy servant depart”).
]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 17 of 188 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-17-of-188/#comment-313 ScottS-M Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:37:02 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-17-of-188/#comment-313 <blockquote>during the five years of the voyage</blockquote> I read the <cite>Voyage of the Beagle</cite> but somehow I forgot how the long the voyage was. That sure is a long time to work for free and live in a single room with another person.

during the five years of the voyage

I read the Voyage of the Beagle but somehow I forgot how the long the voyage was. That sure is a long time to work for free and live in a single room with another person.

]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 12 of 188 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-12-of-188/#comment-280 TurtleReader Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:33:31 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-12-of-188/#comment-280 <blockquote>The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Horace-(Quintus-Horatius-Flaccus)/1/index.html" rel="nofollow">Source: </a><cite>Carmina (III, 3, 1)</cite>

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

Source: Carmina (III, 3, 1)

]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 10 of 188 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-10-of-188/#comment-270 TurtleReader Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:28:13 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-10-of-188/#comment-270 <dl><dt><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pococurante" rel="nofollow">pococurante</a></dt><dd> One who does not care</dd></dl>
pococurante
One who does not care
]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 9 of 188 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-9-of-188/#comment-269 ScottS-M Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:39:15 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-9-of-188/#comment-269 <blockquote>I beat a puppy, I believe, simply from enjoying the sense of power</blockquote> I remember reading about this quote on <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/03/the_creationist_quotemining_re.php" rel="nofollow">Pharyngula</a>. It does look pretty bad out of context but not so bad when you read the whole paragraph.

I beat a puppy, I believe, simply from enjoying the sense of power

I remember reading about this quote on Pharyngula. It does look pretty bad out of context but not so bad when you read the whole paragraph.

]]> Comment on The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin - Day 5 of 188 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-darwin/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-5-of-188/#comment-250 TurtleReader Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:00:47 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/the-life-and-letters-of-charles-darwin-day-5-of-188/#comment-250 The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenaeum_Club" rel="nofollow">Athenaeum Club</a> was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentlemen%27s_club" rel="nofollow">gentleman's club</a> (<q>Second homes where men could relax, mix with their friends, play parlour games and get a meal. They allowed upper and upper-middle class men with modest incomes to spend their time in grand surroundings</q>) in London. Interestingly the "40 Thieves" also included Charles Dickens. This was in 1838 before Darwin had published the <i>Origin of Species</i> or <i>Voyage of the Beagle</i> and Dickens would have been just publishing the first of his novels. The Athenaeum Club was a gentleman’s club (Second homes where men could relax, mix with their friends, play parlour games and get a meal. They allowed upper and upper-middle class men with modest incomes to spend their time in grand surroundings) in London. Interestingly the “40 Thieves” also included Charles Dickens. This was in 1838 before Darwin had published the Origin of Species or Voyage of the Beagle and Dickens would have been just publishing the first of his novels.

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