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Page 3
The only further scrap of information as to my father's family is derived from a
remark he once made in my hearing , that his uncles at Stirling ( I think he said )
were very tall men . I myself was six feet when I was sixteen , and my eldest
brother ...
The only further scrap of information as to my father's family is derived from a
remark he once made in my hearing , that his uncles at Stirling ( I think he said )
were very tall men . I myself was six feet when I was sixteen , and my eldest
brother ...
Page 51
... full of talk and gossip and school stories , which kept us all employed and
amused till within about a quarter of an hour of the time for being called up , when
some one would remark , “ I say , let's do our translation ; I don't know a word of it
.
... full of talk and gossip and school stories , which kept us all employed and
amused till within about a quarter of an hour of the time for being called up , when
some one would remark , “ I say , let's do our translation ; I don't know a word of it
.
Page 111
This wish to know the names of wild plants , to be able even to speak of them ,
and to learn anything that was known about them , had arisen from a chance
remark I had overheard about a year before . A lady , who was governess in a
Quaker ...
This wish to know the names of wild plants , to be able even to speak of them ,
and to learn anything that was known about them , had arisen from a chance
remark I had overheard about a year before . A lady , who was governess in a
Quaker ...
Page 120
There was nothing very marked in the rest of the year . In 1842 frost was
predicted for several days at the end of January and the first week in February ,
which was correct . April was foretold to have only four days ' rain , and the
remark of the ...
There was nothing very marked in the rest of the year . In 1842 frost was
predicted for several days at the end of January and the first week in February ,
which was correct . April was foretold to have only four days ' rain , and the
remark of the ...
Page 164
He used to walk about a good deal with a pipe in his mouth and dressed in a
gamekeeper style , and he always stopped to make some remark , and then
walked on without waiting for an answer . My brother made a rough pen - and -
ink ...
He used to walk about a good deal with a pipe in his mouth and dressed in a
gamekeeper style , and he always stopped to make some remark , and then
walked on without waiting for an answer . My brother made a rough pen - and -
ink ...
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| Title | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide Bell's Indian and colonial library My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Author | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | G. Bell & Sons, 1905 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 10 mai 2018 |
| ISBN | 059800596X, 9780598005960 |
| Length | 447 pages |
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