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The only thing I remember his telling us about his school was that his master
dressed in the old fashion , and that he had a best suit entirely of yellow velvet .
When my father left school he was articled to a firm of solicitors - Messrs .
Ewington ...
The only thing I remember his telling us about his school was that his master
dressed in the old fashion , and that he had a best suit entirely of yellow velvet .
When my father left school he was articled to a firm of solicitors - Messrs .
Ewington ...
Page 11
After a very few numbers were issued the whole thing came to grief , partly , it
was said , by the defalcations of a manager or bookkeeper , who appropriated
the money advanced by my father to pay for work and materials , and partly , no
doubt ...
After a very few numbers were issued the whole thing came to grief , partly , it
was said , by the defalcations of a manager or bookkeeper , who appropriated
the money advanced by my father to pay for work and materials , and partly , no
doubt ...
Page 19
So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the yard , I determined to try and
see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured some water in till it was about
an inch or two deep , and then collected all the small stones I could find and put ...
So one day , finding a jar or bucket standing in the yard , I determined to try and
see this wonderful thing . I first with a mug poured some water in till it was about
an inch or two deep , and then collected all the small stones I could find and put ...
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I rather think the inn was the Green Man , or some such name , in Holborn , and
the one thing that lives in my memory is that in the morning my mother ordered
coffee for breakfast , and said to the waiter , “ Mind and make it good . ” The result
of ...
I rather think the inn was the Green Man , or some such name , in Holborn , and
the one thing that lives in my memory is that in the morning my mother ordered
coffee for breakfast , and said to the waiter , “ Mind and make it good . ” The result
of ...
Page 54
... using very nearly the same words as we had used , but arranging them in a
very different order , and showing us that the very ideas involved and the whole
construction of the sentence was totally different from any . thing we had
imagined .
... using very nearly the same words as we had used , but arranging them in a
very different order , and showing us that the very ideas involved and the whole
construction of the sentence was totally different from any . thing we had
imagined .
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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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