My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 19
... rock has always been clearly pictured before me as being the scene of my earliest attempt to try an experiment , and its complete failure . " Æsop's Fables " were often read to me , and that of the fox which was thirsty and found a ...
... rock has always been clearly pictured before me as being the scene of my earliest attempt to try an experiment , and its complete failure . " Æsop's Fables " were often read to me , and that of the fox which was thirsty and found a ...
Page 21
... rock was blasted , and sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large charges of powder must have ...
... rock was blasted , and sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large charges of powder must have ...
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... rock - basins that contained it . I am informed that now this beautiful Chadwell Spring has been entirely destroyed by the boring of deep wells in the neighbourhood , which have drawn off the springs that supplied it , and that it is ...
... rock - basins that contained it . I am informed that now this beautiful Chadwell Spring has been entirely destroyed by the boring of deep wells in the neighbourhood , which have drawn off the springs that supplied it , and that it is ...
Page 40
... rocks His lusty knocks Re - echo many a rood . " Leaving the avenue we crossed a large field , descending into a lane in a hollow , whence a little further on a path led us along the outside of Bayfordbury Park , the old oak palings of ...
... rocks His lusty knocks Re - echo many a rood . " Leaving the avenue we crossed a large field , descending into a lane in a hollow , whence a little further on a path led us along the outside of Bayfordbury Park , the old oak palings of ...
Page 76
... rocks and pinnacles , which made me long to see such a strange and picturesque spot - a longing which I only gratified about a dozen years ago , finding it more exquisitely beautiful than I had imagined it to be , even if not quite so ...
... rocks and pinnacles , which made me long to see such a strange and picturesque spot - a longing which I only gratified about a dozen years ago , finding it more exquisitely beautiful than I had imagined it to be , even if not quite so ...
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