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When stript of that , so desperate is my case , I'm oft devoured in half an hour's space . ” One more enigma in my father's writing is interesting because founded on a custom common in my youth , but which has now wholly passed away . a ...
When stript of that , so desperate is my case , I'm oft devoured in half an hour's space . ” One more enigma in my father's writing is interesting because founded on a custom common in my youth , but which has now wholly passed away . a ...
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He proposes , in fact , to commence another magazine with a different name , which he says will cost only sixty guineas a number , and can be published at half a crown . He refers to the General Chronicle as if that were the title I ...
He proposes , in fact , to commence another magazine with a different name , which he says will cost only sixty guineas a number , and can be published at half a crown . He refers to the General Chronicle as if that were the title I ...
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... half London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one servant was kept , and my father did most of the garden work himself , and provided the family with all the vegetables and most of the fruit which was consumed .
... half London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one servant was kept , and my father did most of the garden work himself , and provided the family with all the vegetables and most of the fruit which was consumed .
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was fairly active and fond of gardening and other country occupations , such as brewing beer and making grape or elder wine whenever he had the opportunity ; and during some years at Hertford he rented a garden about half a mile away ...
was fairly active and fond of gardening and other country occupations , such as brewing beer and making grape or elder wine whenever he had the opportunity ; and during some years at Hertford he rented a garden about half a mile away ...
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The river in front of our house was the Usk , a fine stream on which we often saw men fishing in coracles , the ancient form of boat made of strong wicker - work , somewhat the shape of the deeper half of a cockle - shell , and covered ...
The river in front of our house was the Usk , a fine stream on which we often saw men fishing in coracles , the ancient form of boat made of strong wicker - work , somewhat the shape of the deeper half of a cockle - shell , and covered ...
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| Pealkiri | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Autor | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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