My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1906 |
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... brother William was an inch taller , while my brother John and sister Fanny were both rather tall . My father and mother , however , were under rather than over middle height , and the remark about his tall uncles was to account for ...
... brother William was an inch taller , while my brother John and sister Fanny were both rather tall . My father and mother , however , were under rather than over middle height , and the remark about his tall uncles was to account for ...
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... brothers and sisters may have known her , but she was only their step - grandmother . Mr. Greenell had died four ... brother of my mother's grandfather , William Greenell , as shown by the following inscription : — " Under this tomb ...
... brothers and sisters may have known her , but she was only their step - grandmother . Mr. Greenell had died four ... brother of my mother's grandfather , William Greenell , as shown by the following inscription : — " Under this tomb ...
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... brother , who died in infancy , was named William Greenell Wallace , and it seems not unlikely that his mother , Mrs. Dilke , had been a Miss Greenell before her first marriage . I will now say a few words about my father's early life ...
... brother , who died in infancy , was named William Greenell Wallace , and it seems not unlikely that his mother , Mrs. Dilke , had been a Miss Greenell before her first marriage . I will now say a few words about my father's early life ...
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... brother John was born in 1818. Shortly afterwards his affairs must have been getting worse , and he determined to move with his family of six children to some place where living was as cheap as pos- sible ; and , probably from having ...
... brother John was born in 1818. Shortly afterwards his affairs must have been getting worse , and he determined to move with his family of six children to some place where living was as cheap as pos- sible ; and , probably from having ...
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... brother could do to earn our living and travelling expenses . About the time I went to live with my brother my sister Fanny entered a French school at Lille to learn the language and to teach English , and I think she was a year there ...
... brother could do to earn our living and travelling expenses . About the time I went to live with my brother my sister Fanny entered a French school at Lille to learn the language and to teach English , and I think she was a year there ...
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