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Page 10
Kitty , a fair but frozen maid , Kindled a flame I still deplore , The hood - wink ' d
Boy was called in aid So fatal to my suit before . Tell me , ye fair , this urchin ' s
name Who still mankind annoys ; Cupid and he are not the same , Though each
can ...
Kitty , a fair but frozen maid , Kindled a flame I still deplore , The hood - wink ' d
Boy was called in aid So fatal to my suit before . Tell me , ye fair , this urchin ' s
name Who still mankind annoys ; Cupid and he are not the same , Though each
can ...
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 19
In consequence of this custom the Sunday before Easter was called in Wales “
Flowering Sunday , " and was looked forward to by most families as an event of
special interest , and by children as quite a festival . It is always a pretty sight
when ...
In consequence of this custom the Sunday before Easter was called in Wales “
Flowering Sunday , " and was looked forward to by most families as an event of
special interest , and by children as quite a festival . It is always a pretty sight
when ...
Page 31
The playground was a gravel yard on one side of the house , and there we
occasionally found what I here first heard called " thunderbolts " - worn
specimens of belemnites — fossils of the chalk formation . We all believed that
they fell down ...
The playground was a gravel yard on one side of the house , and there we
occasionally found what I here first heard called " thunderbolts " - worn
specimens of belemnites — fossils of the chalk formation . We all believed that
they fell down ...
Page 33
The river Lea , coming from the south - west , passes through the middle of the
town , where the old town mill was situated in an open space called the Wash ,
which was no doubt liable to be flooded in early times . The miller was reputed ...
The river Lea , coming from the south - west , passes through the middle of the
town , where the old town mill was situated in an open space called the Wash ,
which was no doubt liable to be flooded in early times . The miller was reputed ...
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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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