 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1896 - 1056 pagina’s
...Henry. "It was,'' Huxley himself has remarked, "a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...characteristic Huxley claimed to have been passed on to him "in full strength," and to have often "stood him in good stead," and to it he was undoubtedly indebted... | |
 | William Stirling - 1902 - 210 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy " (Autobiography of THH) "I desired to obtain, a Professorship of either Physiology or Comparative... | |
 | Mildred Lewis Rutherford - 1906 - 806 pagina’s
...called me Thomas Henry. Why, I do not know, but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy." As a child he tells us he aped the manners of a courtly clergyman whom he was siippose'd to resemble.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar movements... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 190 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar movements... | |
 | Alan Montgomery Eyre - 1913 - 430 pagina’s
...why I was called Thomas. It was, however, a curious chance that my parents should have chosen for me the name of that particular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy." Huxley had begun his career as a doctor and had become a great naturalist. " It is possible," says... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. 1 Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar movements... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy.1 Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1919 - 286 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar movements... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1920 - 202 pagina’s
...christened Thomas Henry I do not know; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular...Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. Physically and mentally I am the son of my mother so completely — even down to peculiar movements... | |
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Why I was christened Thomas Henry I do not know ; but it is a curious chance that my parents should have fixed for my usual denomination upon the name of that particular Apostle with whom I have always felt most sympathy. 
