My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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... London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one servant was kept , and my father did most of the garden work himself , and provided the family with all the vegetables and most of the fruit which was consumed . Poultry , meat ...
... London prices . Here , so far as I remember , only one servant was kept , and my father did most of the garden work himself , and provided the family with all the vegetables and most of the fruit which was consumed . Poultry , meat ...
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... London , which was certain to be ultimately of great value , but which he had not capital enough to complete . He therefore had to raise money , and did so by using funds entrusted to him for other purposes , among them my father's ...
... London , which was certain to be ultimately of great value , but which he had not capital enough to complete . He therefore had to raise money , and did so by using funds entrusted to him for other purposes , among them my father's ...
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... London with a large builder named Martin then engaged in the erection of King's College , in order to become familiar with the practical details of building . He may be said , therefore , to have had a really good pro- fessional ...
... London with a large builder named Martin then engaged in the erection of King's College , in order to become familiar with the practical details of building . He may be said , therefore , to have had a really good pro- fessional ...
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... London , aged eighty - one . On the whole , both the Wallaces and the Greenells seem to have been rather long - lived families when they reached manhood or womanhood . The five ancestral Wallaces of whom I have records had an average ...
... London , aged eighty - one . On the whole , both the Wallaces and the Greenells seem to have been rather long - lived families when they reached manhood or womanhood . The five ancestral Wallaces of whom I have records had an average ...
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... London to South Wales in the miserable accommodation then afforded to third - class passengers , which , increased by a damp bed at Bristol , brought on severe congestion of the lungs , from which he never recovered . I will now give a ...
... London to South Wales in the miserable accommodation then afforded to third - class passengers , which , increased by a damp bed at Bristol , brought on severe congestion of the lungs , from which he never recovered . I will now give a ...
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