My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 32
... George Silk and Alfred Wallace , which , with long intervals of absence at various periods , has continued to this day . The way in which we were brought together throughout our boyhood is very curious . While at Hertford I lived ...
... George Silk and Alfred Wallace , which , with long intervals of absence at various periods , has continued to this day . The way in which we were brought together throughout our boyhood is very curious . While at Hertford I lived ...
Page 73
... Silk family for neighbours in the larger half of the house . They also had most of the garden , on the lawn of which ... George used to climb up into the tree , where we could gather the largest and ripest fruit and feast luxuriously ...
... Silk family for neighbours in the larger half of the house . They also had most of the garden , on the lawn of which ... George used to climb up into the tree , where we could gather the largest and ripest fruit and feast luxuriously ...
Page 142
... George Silk , I find the following passage which well expresses the pleasure I felt in getting back to land - surveying : — " I think you would like land - surveying , about half in- doors and half outdoors work . It is delightful on a ...
... George Silk , I find the following passage which well expresses the pleasure I felt in getting back to land - surveying : — " I think you would like land - surveying , about half in- doors and half outdoors work . It is delightful on a ...
Page 268
... George Silk , about a fortnight after our arrival , to supplement the more detailed but less impulsive account in my published narrative . " We have been staying for near a fortnight at the country house ( called here Rosinha ) of Mr ...
... George Silk , about a fortnight after our arrival , to supplement the more detailed but less impulsive account in my published narrative . " We have been staying for near a fortnight at the country house ( called here Rosinha ) of Mr ...
Page 325
... George Silk . On our way from London to Dover we had for companion in our com- partment a stout , good - humoured American , a New - England manufacturer , going to Paris on business for the first time . He asked us if we could ...
... George Silk . On our way from London to Dover we had for companion in our com- partment a stout , good - humoured American , a New - England manufacturer , going to Paris on business for the first time . He asked us if we could ...
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