My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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... obtain a photograph of this portrait a few years ago , but the present owner refused to allow it to be copied , having , I fancy , some exaggerated idea of its value as a work of art . Other friends or relatives of the Greenell family ...
... obtain a photograph of this portrait a few years ago , but the present owner refused to allow it to be copied , having , I fancy , some exaggerated idea of its value as a work of art . Other friends or relatives of the Greenell family ...
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... obtained , and where I was born on January 8 , 1823. In such a remote district rents were no doubt very low and provisions of all kinds very cheap - probably not much more than half London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one ...
... obtained , and where I was born on January 8 , 1823. In such a remote district rents were no doubt very low and provisions of all kinds very cheap - probably not much more than half London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one ...
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... obtained a small portion of the money due , with promises to pay all at some future time ; and I recollect his having frequently to go to London by coach to interview the solicitor , and try to get some security for future payment ...
... obtained a small portion of the money due , with promises to pay all at some future time ; and I recollect his having frequently to go to London by coach to interview the solicitor , and try to get some security for future payment ...
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... obtained a position as a teacher in Columbia College , Georgia , U.S.A. , then just established under the Bishop of Georgia ; and she only returned after my brother William's death in 1846 , when the surviving members of the family in ...
... obtained a position as a teacher in Columbia College , Georgia , U.S.A. , then just established under the Bishop of Georgia ; and she only returned after my brother William's death in 1846 , when the surviving members of the family in ...
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... obtained it , and often read a play to the assembled family . In this way I made my first acquaintance with Lear and Cordelia , with Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek , with the thrilling drama of the Mer- chant of Venice , with Hamlet ...
... obtained it , and often read a play to the assembled family . In this way I made my first acquaintance with Lear and Cordelia , with Malvolio and Sir Andrew Aguecheek , with the thrilling drama of the Mer- chant of Venice , with Hamlet ...
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