My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... short holidays , except once during my recovery from a dangerous illness , so that I also had little opportunity of learning anything of our ancestors on the paternal side , more especially as my father seldom spoke of his youth , and I ...
... short holidays , except once during my recovery from a dangerous illness , so that I also had little opportunity of learning anything of our ancestors on the paternal side , more especially as my father seldom spoke of his youth , and I ...
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... short ! You grasp at gain and shun expense : your door , Inhospitable Pope , stands ever shut . Naught to the poor you give : your power is due To wealth not worth : by intrigue you have risen . " In faded ink and very old handwriting ...
... short ! You grasp at gain and shun expense : your door , Inhospitable Pope , stands ever shut . Naught to the poor you give : your power is due To wealth not worth : by intrigue you have risen . " In faded ink and very old handwriting ...
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... short account of my father's appearance and character . In a miniature of himself , painted just before his marriage , when he was thirty - five years old , he is repre- sented in a blue coat with gilt buttons , a white waistcoat , a ...
... short account of my father's appearance and character . In a miniature of himself , painted just before his marriage , when he was thirty - five years old , he is repre- sented in a blue coat with gilt buttons , a white waistcoat , a ...
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... , but with a very weak and uncertain touch , and among his few scrap- and note - books that have been preserved , there is hardly VOL . I. C anything original except one or two short poems in the I ] 17 MY RELATIVES AND ANCESTORS.
... , but with a very weak and uncertain touch , and among his few scrap- and note - books that have been preserved , there is hardly VOL . I. C anything original except one or two short poems in the I ] 17 MY RELATIVES AND ANCESTORS.
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... short poems in the usual didactic style of the period , but of no special merit . I will , however , give here the only two of these that my mother had preserved , and which are , no doubt , the best products of his pen . They were ...
... short poems in the usual didactic style of the period , but of no special merit . I will , however , give here the only two of these that my mother had preserved , and which are , no doubt , the best products of his pen . They were ...
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