My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... five years older than my grandfather , and may have been his uncle . Then follows ADMIRAL SIR JAMES WALLACE , who died on March 6 , 1803 , aged 69 years ; and FRANCES SLEIGH , daughter of the above JAMES WALLACE , ESQ . , who died ...
... five years older than my grandfather , and may have been his uncle . Then follows ADMIRAL SIR JAMES WALLACE , who died on March 6 , 1803 , aged 69 years ; and FRANCES SLEIGH , daughter of the above JAMES WALLACE , ESQ . , who died ...
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... five daughters , the first - born died when five months old ; the next , Eliza , died of consumption at Hertford , aged twenty - two . Two others , Mary Anne and Emma , died at Usk at the ages of eight and six respectively ; while ...
... five daughters , the first - born died when five months old ; the next , Eliza , died of consumption at Hertford , aged twenty - two . Two others , Mary Anne and Emma , died at Usk at the ages of eight and six respectively ; while ...
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... five Greenells had an average of seventy - six . Of our own family , my brother John reached seventy - seven , and my sister Fanny eighty - one . My brother William owed his death to a railway journey by night in winter , from London to ...
... five Greenells had an average of seventy - six . Of our own family , my brother John reached seventy - seven , and my sister Fanny eighty - one . My brother William owed his death to a railway journey by night in winter , from London to ...
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... five , or less . My brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than John , so that they would have been about ...
... five , or less . My brother John was four and a half years older , and I expect was the leader in most of our games and explorations . My two sisters were five and seven years older than John , so that they would have been about ...
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... five feet high , between us and the adjoining house . The very first incident I remember , which happened , I think , on the morning after my arrival , was of a boy about my own age looking over this wall , who at once inquired ...
... five feet high , between us and the adjoining house . The very first incident I remember , which happened , I think , on the morning after my arrival , was of a boy about my own age looking over this wall , who at once inquired ...
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