My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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... considerable emi- nence , dating from my return home in 1862 , together with a few of my own returned to me by some of my correspondents , I began to see that I had a fair amount of material , though I was very doubtful how far it would ...
... considerable emi- nence , dating from my return home in 1862 , together with a few of my own returned to me by some of my correspondents , I began to see that I had a fair amount of material , though I was very doubtful how far it would ...
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... considerable correspondence . My father was practically an only son , an elder boy dying when three months old ; and as his father died when he was a boy of twelve , and his mother when he was an infant , he had not much opportunity of ...
... considerable correspondence . My father was practically an only son , an elder boy dying when three months old ; and as his father died when he was a boy of twelve , and his mother when he was an infant , he had not much opportunity of ...
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... considerable numbers of Greenells ( the name being variously spelt , as Grinell , Greenhill , etc. ) , going back continuously to 1579. I possess an old seal with a coat - of - arms which belonged to my grandfather , and was believed to ...
... considerable numbers of Greenells ( the name being variously spelt , as Grinell , Greenhill , etc. ) , going back continuously to 1579. I possess an old seal with a coat - of - arms which belonged to my grandfather , and was believed to ...
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... considerably reduced his already too scanty income . Whether he made any other or what efforts to earn money I do not know , but he continued to live in Marylebone till 1816 , a daughter Emma having been born there in that year ; but ...
... considerably reduced his already too scanty income . Whether he made any other or what efforts to earn money I do not know , but he continued to live in Marylebone till 1816 , a daughter Emma having been born there in that year ; but ...
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... considerable gift of poesy , and was probably more fitted for a literary career than for any mechanical or professional occupation . It will thus be seen that we were all of us very much thrown on our own resources to make our way in ...
... considerable gift of poesy , and was probably more fitted for a literary career than for any mechanical or professional occupation . It will thus be seen that we were all of us very much thrown on our own resources to make our way in ...
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