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Sir William Congreve
(20 May 1772 - 16 May 1828)

English artillery officer.


Science Quotes by Sir William Congreve (1)

I confess freely to you I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
— Sir William Congreve
Letter to John Dennis (10 Jul 1695). In William Makepeace Thackeray, Lectures on the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1885), 21.
See also:  |  Evolution (229)  |  Monkey (10)


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