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more involved , till at last the family became almost wholly dependent on my
mother ' s small marriage settlement of less than a hundred a year ,
supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received
as librarian to a ...
more involved , till at last the family became almost wholly dependent on my
mother ' s small marriage settlement of less than a hundred a year ,
supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received
as librarian to a ...
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As I knew it , it was a circular pond nearly a hundred feet in diameter , filled with
the most crystal clear water , and very deep in the centre , where the springs were
continually bubbling upward , keeping up a good stream which supplied a ...
As I knew it , it was a circular pond nearly a hundred feet in diameter , filled with
the most crystal clear water , and very deep in the centre , where the springs were
continually bubbling upward , keeping up a good stream which supplied a ...
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Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford
Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further
was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company ,
now ...
Walking along the London Road , in about a mile and a half we reached Hertford
Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further
was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company ,
now ...
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The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious
grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the river flowing
through a part of it , and with about two hundred yards of the old defensive wall ...
The castle was a modern building in the castellated style , but it stood in spacious
grounds of about four acres near the middle of the town , with the river flowing
through a part of it , and with about two hundred yards of the old defensive wall ...
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The house where the masters lived and where we had our meals and slept was
in Fore Street , and was about two hundred feet away from the school ; and the
large schoolroom was the only place we had to go to in wet weather , when not at
...
The house where the masters lived and where we had our meals and slept was
in Fore Street , and was about two hundred feet away from the school ; and the
large schoolroom was the only place we had to go to in wet weather , when not at
...
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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