My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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... 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 hearing about the family history . I myself left home before I was fourteen , and only rarely ...
... 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 hearing about the family history . I myself left home before I was fourteen , and only rarely ...
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... months old ; the next , Eliza , died of consumption at Hertford , aged twenty - two . Two others , Mary Anne and Emma , died at Usk at the ages of eight and six respectively ; while Frances married Mr. Thomas Sims , a photographer , and ...
... months old ; the next , Eliza , died of consumption at Hertford , aged twenty - two . Two others , Mary Anne and Emma , died at Usk at the ages of eight and six respectively ; while Frances married Mr. Thomas Sims , a photographer , and ...
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... months of my life I have also but slight recollections , confined to a few isolated facts or incidents . On leaving the inn we went to my aunt's at Dulwich . Mrs. Wilson was my mother's only sister , who had married a solicitor , who ...
... months of my life I have also but slight recollections , confined to a few isolated facts or incidents . On leaving the inn we went to my aunt's at Dulwich . Mrs. Wilson was my mother's only sister , who had married a solicitor , who ...
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... month or two , or till the beginning of the next holidays . But while it lasted it was , perhaps , the severest punishment I ever endured . In an article on the civilizations of China and Japan in The Independent Review ( April , 1904 ) ...
... month or two , or till the beginning of the next holidays . But while it lasted it was , perhaps , the severest punishment I ever endured . In an article on the civilizations of China and Japan in The Independent Review ( April , 1904 ) ...
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... months as a boarder at the Grammar School , as already stated ; but this whole period of my life is very indis- tinct . I am sure , however , that we moved to the next house in St. Andrew's Street early in 1836 , because on May 15 of ...
... months as a boarder at the Grammar School , as already stated ; but this whole period of my life is very indis- tinct . I am sure , however , that we moved to the next house in St. Andrew's Street early in 1836 , because on May 15 of ...
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