My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 54
... English county so thoroughly , that the result was automatic , and the name of Staffordshire brought into my memory Stafford , Litchfield , Leek , as surely and rapidly as eight times seven brought fifty - six . The labour and mental ...
... English county so thoroughly , that the result was automatic , and the name of Staffordshire brought into my memory Stafford , Litchfield , Leek , as surely and rapidly as eight times seven brought fifty - six . The labour and mental ...
Page 111
... English names . At that time I hardly realized that there was such a science as systematic botany , that every flower and every meanest and most insignificant weed had been accurately described and classified , and that there was any ...
... English names . At that time I hardly realized that there was such a science as systematic botany , that every flower and every meanest and most insignificant weed had been accurately described and classified , and that there was any ...
Page 114
... English landlords , who subor- dinated all ideas of justice or humanity to the keeping up of their rents . Even if it stood alone , this one poem would justify the poet as an upholder of the rights of man and as a truly ethical teacher ...
... English landlords , who subor- dinated all ideas of justice or humanity to the keeping up of their rents . Even if it stood alone , this one poem would justify the poet as an upholder of the rights of man and as a truly ethical teacher ...
Page 161
... in London . The family here were rather interesting . The father , a middle - aged man , could not speak a word of English . His VOL . I. M grown - up sons , who helped in the shoemaking [ CHAP . XI ] 161 BRECKNOCKSHIRE.
... in London . The family here were rather interesting . The father , a middle - aged man , could not speak a word of English . His VOL . I. M grown - up sons , who helped in the shoemaking [ CHAP . XI ] 161 BRECKNOCKSHIRE.
Page 162
... English very well , and told us that she preferred it to Welsh , because it was less tiring , the Welsh having so many gutturals and sounds which require an effort to pronounce correctly . There were also two little girls who went to ...
... English very well , and told us that she preferred it to Welsh , because it was less tiring , the Welsh having so many gutturals and sounds which require an effort to pronounce correctly . There were also two little girls who went to ...
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