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223 REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER AT TWENTY - ONE CHAPTER XVI 229 LONDON AND LEICESTER CHAPTER XVII 241 RESIDENCE AT NEATH CHAPTER XVIII THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON 264 . CHAPTER XIX 289 “ IN MEMORIAM " CHAPTER XX 302 IN LONDON , AND VOYAGE TO ...
223 REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER AT TWENTY - ONE CHAPTER XVI 229 LONDON AND LEICESTER CHAPTER XVII 241 RESIDENCE AT NEATH CHAPTER XVIII THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON 264 . CHAPTER XIX 289 “ IN MEMORIAM " CHAPTER XX 302 IN LONDON , AND VOYAGE TO ...
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The only further scrap of information as to my father's family is derived from a remark he once made in my hearing , that his uncles at Stirling ( I think he said ) were very tall men . I myself was six feet when I was sixteen , and my ...
The only further scrap of information as to my father's family is derived from a remark he once made in my hearing , that his uncles at Stirling ( I think he said ) were very tall men . I myself was six feet when I was sixteen , and my ...
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... work that our circumstances entailed was certainly beneficial in developing whatever powers were latent in us ; and this is what I implied when I remarked that our father's loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in disguise .
... work that our circumstances entailed was certainly beneficial in developing whatever powers were latent in us ; and this is what I implied when I remarked that our father's loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in disguise .
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... gossip and school stories , which kept us all employed and amused till within about a quarter of an hour of the time for being called up , when some one would remark , “ I say , let's do our translation ; I don't know a word of it .
... gossip and school stories , which kept us all employed and amused till within about a quarter of an hour of the time for being called up , when some one would remark , “ I say , let's do our translation ; I don't know a word of it .
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It led to many disagreeables , and subjected me to painful insinuations and annoying remarks . I was especially sensitive to what all boys dislike — the being placed in any exceptional position , or having to do anything different from ...
It led to many disagreeables , and subjected me to painful insinuations and annoying remarks . I was especially sensitive to what all boys dislike — the being placed in any exceptional position , or having to do anything different from ...
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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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