My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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... four Wallaces buried in the same church as that in which my grandfather was married , and of which place he was a resident at the time . As Hanworth is a very small place , the total population of the parish being only 750 in 1840 , it ...
... four Wallaces buried in the same church as that in which my grandfather was married , and of which place he was a resident at the time . As Hanworth is a very small place , the total population of the parish being only 750 in 1840 , it ...
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... four years earlier . Although he lived to such a comparatively recent period , I have not been able to ascertain what was his busi- ness . His father , however , my mother's grandfather , who died in 1797 , aged 80 , was for many years ...
... four years earlier . Although he lived to such a comparatively recent period , I have not been able to ascertain what was his busi- ness . His father , however , my mother's grandfather , who died in 1797 , aged 80 , was for many years ...
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... four years after my father's marriage . It shows that the work must have been of large quarto size , in no way of a popular character , and too costly to have any chance of commercial success . After a very few numbers were issued the ...
... four years after my father's marriage . It shows that the work must have been of large quarto size , in no way of a popular character , and too costly to have any chance of commercial success . After a very few numbers were issued the ...
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... four years old , as we left Usk when I was about five , or less . My brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than ...
... four years old , as we left Usk when I was about five , or less . My brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than ...
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... four , and was articled to Messrs . Sayce , a firm of land surveyors and estate agents at Kington , in Herefordshire . I have an indistinct recollection of his visiting us occasionally , and of his being looked up to as very clever ...
... four , and was articled to Messrs . Sayce , a firm of land surveyors and estate agents at Kington , in Herefordshire . I have an indistinct recollection of his visiting us occasionally , and of his being looked up to as very clever ...
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