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  • Had the Reverend Leonard Jenyns or Professor JS Henslow been available, who knows whether The Origin of the Species would ever have seen the light of day.

    In praise of ... second choices | Editorial 2011

  • The collaboration between Charles Darwin and naturalist Leonard Jenyns, leading to the publication of Fish as part of the Zoology of the Beagle, will be described, based on the published correspondence between Darwin and Jenyns.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • The collaboration between Charles Darwin and naturalist Leonard Jenyns, leading to the publication of Fish as part of the Zoology of the Beagle, will be described, based on the published correspondence between Darwin and Jenyns.

    Darwin Bicentenary events 2009

  • Sinopsis de datos biologicos y pesqueros de la sardina Sardinops sagax (Jenyns, 1842) en el Pacifico suroriental.

    Humboldt Current large marine ecosystem 2008

  • Jenyns, for it was in the “Chronicle”; as was also an answer to it, from the “Monitor.”

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • Brown, Jenyns, and Paley also regarded utilitarianism as a means to attaining happiness for oneself, through the mediation of God.

    UTILITARIANISM D. H. MONRO 1968

  • Johnson's review of Jenyns 'work commences on a note of skepticism: “This doctrine of the regular subordination of beings, the scale of existence, and the chain of nature, I have often considered, but always left the inquiry in doubt and uncertainty.”

    HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968

  • George Washington would never have proposed him to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; and he was a reading man, too, a scholar, deeply learned, and he printed at his own expense Soame Jenyns 'work upon the internal evidence of Christianity.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • Jenyns, in his _Manual of British Vertebrate Animals_, if you go to one of these gentlemen, requesting him to "execute," and professing your readiness to pay his bill on demand or delivery, he will be sure to give your order to the most scurvy botch in his establishment, put in the worst materials, and treat you altogether as a person utterly unacquainted with the usages of polite society.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

  • Jenyns, and Burke, an Irish gentleman who wrote lately a very pretty treatise on the Sublime.

    Life of Adam Smith Rae, John, 1845-1915 1895

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