My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... less tedious than might have been anticipated . My thanks are due to those friends who have assisted me with facts or illustrations , and especially to Mrs. Arthur Waugh , who has been so kind as to make the very full Index to my book ...
... less tedious than might have been anticipated . My thanks are due to those friends who have assisted me with facts or illustrations , and especially to Mrs. Arthur Waugh , who has been so kind as to make the very full Index to my book ...
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... thought it quite hope- less to begin to practise as a solicitor , and being entirely devoid of business habits , allowed himself to be persuaded into undertaking one of the most risky of literary speculations , 10 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
... thought it quite hope- less to begin to practise as a solicitor , and being entirely devoid of business habits , allowed himself to be persuaded into undertaking one of the most risky of literary speculations , 10 [ CHAP . MY LIFE.
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... less than a hundred a year , supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received as librarian to a subscription library . While at Hoddesdon my sister Fanny got up a small boarding - school for young ladies ...
... less than a hundred a year , supplemented by his taking a few pupils and by a small salary which he received as librarian to a subscription library . While at Hoddesdon my sister Fanny got up a small boarding - school for young ladies ...
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... less efficient training . The oldest son , William , was first articled to a firm of surveyors at Kington , Hereford- shire , probably during the time we resided at Usk . He then spent a year or two in the office of an architect at ...
... less efficient training . The oldest son , William , was first articled to a firm of surveyors at Kington , Hereford- shire , probably during the time we resided at Usk . He then spent a year or two in the office of an architect at ...
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... less water than before . At last I became tired and gave it up , and concluded that the story could not be true ; and I am afraid this rather made me disbelieve in experi- ments out of story - books . The river in front of our house was ...
... less water than before . At last I became tired and gave it up , and concluded that the story could not be true ; and I am afraid this rather made me disbelieve in experi- ments out of story - books . The river in front of our house was ...
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