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Page 10
Sometimes I ' m very hot , and sometimes warm , Sometimes again I ' m cool , yet
feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash ' d , and
wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender ,
Yet ...
Sometimes I ' m very hot , and sometimes warm , Sometimes again I ' m cool , yet
feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash ' d , and
wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender ,
Yet ...
Page 17
Of course , he always wore a top - hat - a beaver hat as it was then called , before
silk hats were invented the only other headgear being sometimes a straw hat for
use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even - tempered ...
Of course , he always wore a top - hat - a beaver hat as it was then called , before
silk hats were invented the only other headgear being sometimes a straw hat for
use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even - tempered ...
Page 21
Here , occasionally , the 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
...
Here , occasionally , the 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
...
Page 24
I particularly remember one day his pointing out to the family that the reflection of
some hills in the river opposite us was sometimes visible and sometimes not ,
though on both occasions in equally calm and clear weather . He explained the ...
I particularly remember one day his pointing out to the family that the reflection of
some hills in the river opposite us was sometimes visible and sometimes not ,
though on both occasions in equally calm and clear weather . He explained the ...
Page 33
He was a cousin of my mother ' s by marriage , and we children sometimes went
to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with
all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets , on moving
...
He was a cousin of my mother ' s by marriage , and we children sometimes went
to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with
all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets , on moving
...
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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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