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It is to be presumed that the village and a good deal of the land was at that time the property of this family , though they appear to have parted with it not long afterwards , as a Mr. Perkins owned the park and rebuilt the church in ...
It is to be presumed that the village and a good deal of the land was at that time the property of this family , though they appear to have parted with it not long afterwards , as a Mr. Perkins owned the park and rebuilt the church in ...
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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 , and as actually bringing out a little ...
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 , and as actually bringing out a little ...
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It was a little awful to me , and I think we were all glad when it was over and we were safe on land again . We must have travelled all day by coach from Usk to the Severn , then on to Bristol , then from Bristol to London .
It was a little awful to me , and I think we were all glad when it was over and we were safe on land again . We must have travelled all day by coach from Usk to the Severn , then on to Bristol , then from Bristol to London .
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but very small red - brick house called Rawdon Cottage , while I went to London and stayed at Mr. Webster's with my brother John , preparatory to going with my eldest brother William to learn land - surveying .
but very small red - brick house called Rawdon Cottage , while I went to London and stayed at Mr. Webster's with my brother John , preparatory to going with my eldest brother William to learn land - surveying .
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In the country gleaning was a universal practice , and numbers of cottagers thus got a portion of their bread ; while a much larger proportion than now lived in the country and had large gardens or a few acres of land .
In the country gleaning was a universal practice , and numbers of cottagers thus got a portion of their bread ; while a much larger proportion than now lived in the country and had large gardens or a few acres of land .
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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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