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Poultry , meat , fish , and all kinds of dairy produce were especially cheap ; my father taught the children himself ; the country around was picturesque and the situation healthy ; and , notwithstanding his reverse of fortune , I am ...
Poultry , meat , fish , and all kinds of dairy produce were especially cheap ; my father taught the children himself ; the country around was picturesque and the situation healthy ; and , notwithstanding his reverse of fortune , I am ...
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Then , when a large fire had been made , he produced some potatoes which he had picked up in a field on the way , and which he then roasted beautifully in the embers , and even produced from another pocket a pinch of salt in a screw of ...
Then , when a large fire had been made , he produced some potatoes which he had picked up in a field on the way , and which he then roasted beautifully in the embers , and even produced from another pocket a pinch of salt in a screw of ...
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But its chief beauty was , that the centre was filled with great flocculent masses of green confervæ , while the water in the centre appeared to have a blue tint , producing exquisite shades of blue and green in evervarying gradations ...
But its chief beauty was , that the centre was filled with great flocculent masses of green confervæ , while the water in the centre appeared to have a blue tint , producing exquisite shades of blue and green in evervarying gradations ...
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... which were not only uncommonly numerous , but were of very fine tones , so that when they were well rung , as they frequently were , they produced an exceedingly musical effect , which I have never heard equalled since .
... which were not only uncommonly numerous , but were of very fine tones , so that when they were well rung , as they frequently were , they produced an exceedingly musical effect , which I have never heard equalled since .
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... and though the result has been a somewhat useful acquisition during life , I cannot but think that the same amount of mental exertion wisely directed might have produced far greater and more generally useful results .
... and though the result has been a somewhat useful acquisition during life , I cannot but think that the same amount of mental exertion wisely directed might have produced far greater and more generally useful results .
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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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