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... 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 visited my parents for short holidays , except once
...
... 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 visited my parents for short holidays , except once
...
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May your prosperity be short ! You grasp at gain and shun expense : your door ,
Inhospitable Pope , stands ever shut . Naught to the poor you give : your power is
due To wealth not worth : by intrigue you have risen . " In faded ink and very old ...
May your prosperity be short ! You grasp at gain and shun expense : your door ,
Inhospitable Pope , stands ever shut . Naught to the poor you give : your power is
due To wealth not worth : by intrigue you have risen . " In faded ink and very old ...
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I will now give a short account of my father ' s appearance and character . In a
miniature of himself , painted just before his marriage , when he was thirty - five
years old , he is represented in a blue coat with gilt buttons , a white waistcoat , a
...
I will now give a short account of my father ' s appearance and character . In a
miniature of himself , painted just before his marriage , when he was thirty - five
years old , he is represented in a blue coat with gilt buttons , a white waistcoat , a
...
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He sketched a little , but with a very weak and uncertain touch , and among his
few scrapand note - books that have been preserved , there is hardly VOL . I .
anything original except one or two short poems in the 1 ] MY RELATIVES AND ...
He sketched a little , but with a very weak and uncertain touch , and among his
few scrapand note - books that have been preserved , there is hardly VOL . I .
anything original except one or two short poems in the 1 ] MY RELATIVES AND ...
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anything original except one or two short poems in the usual didactic style of the
period , but of no special merit . I will , however , give here the only two of these
that my mother had preserved , and which are , no doubt , the best products of his
...
anything original except one or two short poems in the usual didactic style of the
period , but of no special merit . I will , however , give here the only two of these
that my mother had preserved , and which are , no doubt , the best products of his
...
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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