My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideDodd, Mead, 1905 |
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Page 14
... joiner and carpenter . He afterwards worked for a time for Cubitt and other large builders ; then , when he came to live with me at Neath , he learnt surveying and a little architecture . When I went to the 14 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
... joiner and carpenter . He afterwards worked for a time for Cubitt and other large builders ; then , when he came to live with me at Neath , he learnt surveying and a little architecture . When I went to the 14 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
Page 52
... learnt French from him for about two or three years , and though he taught us nothing colloquially , and could not , I think , speak the language himself , yet I learnt enough to read any easy French book , whereas my six years ...
... learnt French from him for about two or three years , and though he taught us nothing colloquially , and could not , I think , speak the language himself , yet I learnt enough to read any easy French book , whereas my six years ...
Page 54
... learnt was geography , which ought to have been the most interesting . It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns , rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School ...
... learnt was geography , which ought to have been the most interesting . It consisted almost entirely in learning by heart the names of the chief towns , rivers , and mountains of the various countries from , I think , Pinnock's " School ...
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... learnt in their due order as belonging to a certain country . History was very little better , being largely a matter of learning by heart names and dates , and reading the very baldest account of the doings of kings and queens , of ...
... learnt in their due order as belonging to a certain country . History was very little better , being largely a matter of learning by heart names and dates , and reading the very baldest account of the doings of kings and queens , of ...
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... learnt to use the simpler tools . During my whole life I have kept a few such tools by me , and have always taken a pleasure in doing the various little repairs continually needed in a house and garden . I therefore look with compassion ...
... learnt to use the simpler tools . During my whole life I have kept a few such tools by me , and have always taken a pleasure in doing the various little repairs continually needed in a house and garden . I therefore look with compassion ...
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Page 28 - I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER. I REMEMBER, I remember The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn : He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now I often wish the night Had borne my breath away ! I remember, I remember...
Page 155 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 155 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 113 - But bringing up the rear of this bright host A Spirit of a different aspect waved His wings, like thunder-clouds above some coast Whose barren beach with frequent wrecks is paved ; His brow was like the deep when tempest-toss'd ; Fierce and unfathomable thoughts engraved Eternal wrath on his immortal face, And where he gazed a gloom pervaded space.
Page 101 - ... remarkable is the general spirit of kindness and affection which is shown towards them, and the entire absence of everything that is likely to give them bad habits, with the presence of whatever is calculated to inspire them with good ones ; the consequence is, that they appear like one well-regulated family, united together by the ties of the closest affection. We heard no quarrels from the youngest to the eldest ; and so strongly impressed are they with the conviction that their interest and...
Page 165 - And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Page 40 - His hat was off, his vest apart, To catch heaven's blessed breeze; For a burning thought was in his brow, And his bosom ill at ease; So he leaned his head on his hands, and read The book between his knees!
Page 256 - I begin to feel rather dissatisfied with a mere local collection ; little is to be learnt by it. I should like to take some one family to study thoroughly, principally with a view to the theory of the origin of species. By that means I am strongly of opinion that some definite results might be arrived at.
Page 358 - ... varieties ; or he may give me trouble by arriving at another conclusion ; but, at all events, his facts will be given for me to work upon.
Page 355 - Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a preexisting closely allied species.