My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 10
... sometimes warm , Sometimes again I'm cool , yet feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender , Yet proves to me a ...
... sometimes warm , Sometimes again I'm cool , yet feel no harm . Part bird , part beast , and vegetable part , Cut , slash'd , and wounded yet I feel no smart . I have a skin , which though but thin and slender , Yet proves to me a ...
Page 17
... sometimes a straw hat for use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even - tempered , very religious in the orthodox Church - of - England way , and with such a reliance on Providence as almost to amount to fatalism ...
... sometimes a straw hat for use in the garden in summer . In character he was quiet and even - tempered , very religious in the orthodox Church - of - England way , and with such a reliance on Providence as almost to amount to fatalism ...
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... sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large charges of powder must have been used , hurling ...
... sometimes we had the fearful delight of watching the explosion from a safe distance , and seeing a cloud of the smaller stones shoot up into the air . At some earlier period very large charges of powder must have been used , hurling ...
Page 24
... sometimes visible and sometimes not , though on both occa- sions in equally calm and clear weather . He explained the cause of this in the magazine , illustrated by diagrams , as being due to changes of a few inches in the height of the ...
... sometimes visible and sometimes not , though on both occa- sions in equally calm and clear weather . He explained the cause of this in the magazine , illustrated by diagrams , as being due to changes of a few inches in the height of the ...
Page 33
... sometimes went to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets , on moving leather belts , carrying the wheat up to the ...
... sometimes went to tea at his house , and then , as a great treat , were shown all over the mill with all its strange wheels and whirling millstones , its queer little pockets , on moving leather belts , carrying the wheat up to the ...
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