My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... heard from my sister Fanny . This I From this time till he married , fifteen years later , he appears to have lived quite idly , so far as being without any systematic occupation , often going to Bath in the season , where he used to ...
... heard from my sister Fanny . This I From this time till he married , fifteen years later , he appears to have lived quite idly , so far as being without any systematic occupation , often going to Bath in the season , where he used to ...
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... heard mentioned occasionally . My eldest brother William was about eighteen when I was four , and was articled to Messrs . Sayce , a firm of land surveyors and estate agents at Kington , in Herefordshire . I have an indistinct ...
... heard mentioned occasionally . My eldest brother William was about eighteen when I was four , and was articled to Messrs . Sayce , a firm of land surveyors and estate agents at Kington , in Herefordshire . I have an indistinct ...
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... heard and the flapping ceased . I then seemed to feel that the creature was clinging with its wings outspread against the wall of the house just outside my window , and I waited in a kind of fearful expectation that it would come inside ...
... heard and the flapping ceased . I then seemed to feel that the creature was clinging with its wings outspread against the wall of the house just outside my window , and I waited in a kind of fearful expectation that it would come inside ...
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... heard it or read it in after years , the picture always in my mind was of the door- step of the Usk cottage with the kittens and the viper in the attitudes so picturesquely described . The other one was the fable of the sheep , who , on ...
... heard it or read it in after years , the picture always in my mind was of the door- step of the Usk cottage with the kittens and the viper in the attitudes so picturesquely described . The other one was the fable of the sheep , who , on ...
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... heard , I had no illness of any kind at Usk , which was no doubt due to the free out- door life we lived there , spending a great part of the day in the large garden or by the riverside , or in the fields and woods around us . As will ...
... heard , I had no illness of any kind at Usk , which was no doubt due to the free out- door life we lived there , spending a great part of the day in the large garden or by the riverside , or in the fields and woods around us . As will ...
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