My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideGregg, 1969 - 916 pages |
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Page 25
... period of my residence at Usk , I have no clear recollection , and can form no distinct mental image , of either my father or mother , brothers or sisters . I simply recollect that they existed , but my recollection is only a blurred ...
... period of my residence at Usk , I have no clear recollection , and can form no distinct mental image , of either my father or mother , brothers or sisters . I simply recollect that they existed , but my recollection is only a blurred ...
Page 85
... period , that the decreased cost of clothing is quite illusory ; the badness of the materials , made for show rather than for wear , render them really dearer . At the early period referred to shoddy was not invented , and paper as part ...
... period , that the decreased cost of clothing is quite illusory ; the badness of the materials , made for show rather than for wear , render them really dearer . At the early period referred to shoddy was not invented , and paper as part ...
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... period , no doubt during the most severe part of a glacial period , the lowlands of these continents were every- where tenanted under the equator by a considerable number of temperate forms . At this period the equatorial climate at the ...
... period , no doubt during the most severe part of a glacial period , the lowlands of these continents were every- where tenanted under the equator by a considerable number of temperate forms . At this period the equatorial climate at the ...
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