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illustrate development of character so far as that is due to environment , would be
extremely interesting , I have kept this in mind , perhaps unduly , though I am not
at all sure that my own conclusions on this point are correct . It is difficult to write ...
illustrate development of character so far as that is due to environment , would be
extremely interesting , I have kept this in mind , perhaps unduly , though I am not
at all sure that my own conclusions on this point are correct . It is difficult to write ...
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She may , therefore , not improbably have been a daughter , or perhaps niece , of
the admiral . Here , then , we have four Wallaces buried in the same church as
that in which my grandfather was married , and of which place he was a resident
...
She may , therefore , not improbably have been a daughter , or perhaps niece , of
the admiral . Here , then , we have four Wallaces buried in the same church as
that in which my grandfather was married , and of which place he was a resident
...
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... cheap ; my father taught the children himself ; the country around was
picturesque and the situation healthy ; and , notwithstanding his reverse of
fortune , I am inclined to think that this was , perhaps , the happiest portion of my
father ' s life .
... cheap ; my father taught the children himself ; the country around was
picturesque and the situation healthy ; and , notwithstanding his reverse of
fortune , I am inclined to think that this was , perhaps , the happiest portion of my
father ' s life .
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... necessity for work that our circumstances entailed was certainly beneficial in
developing whatever powers were latent in us ; and this is what I implied when I
remarked that our father ' s loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in
disguise ...
... necessity for work that our circumstances entailed was certainly beneficial in
developing whatever powers were latent in us ; and this is what I implied when I
remarked that our father ' s loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in
disguise ...
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... realistic kind , “ Sandford and Merton , " which perhaps impressed me even
more deeply than any . I clearly remember the little house and the room we
chiefly occupied , with a French window opening to the garden , a steep wooded
bank on ...
... realistic kind , “ Sandford and Merton , " which perhaps impressed me even
more deeply than any . I clearly remember the little house and the room we
chiefly occupied , with a French window opening to the garden , a steep wooded
bank on ...
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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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