My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 119
... Society to lend me the almanack if they possessed it . They very courteously obliged me , sending me the five years , 1838 to 1842 , all that ever appeared , bound together . I then found that my memory of the weather for a week before ...
... Society to lend me the almanack if they possessed it . They very courteously obliged me , sending me the five years , 1838 to 1842 , all that ever appeared , bound together . I then found that my memory of the weather for a week before ...
Page 127
... society , it is not very surprising that most of the young men of the middle classes that came across my path should have been rather disreputable in conversation , though , perhaps , not always so in character . But , notwithstanding ...
... society , it is not very surprising that most of the young men of the middle classes that came across my path should have been rather disreputable in conversation , though , perhaps , not always so in character . But , notwithstanding ...
Page 132
... society in a rather lonely place . They were both young people and fairly educated , but , as I thought even then , rather commonplace . The chief business of the village girls hereabouts was straw - plaiting , which they did sitting at ...
... society in a rather lonely place . They were both young people and fairly educated , but , as I thought even then , rather commonplace . The chief business of the village girls hereabouts was straw - plaiting , which they did sitting at ...
Page 149
... society . One of these was at a dinner at Mr. Sayce's , where the wine - drinking was especially prolonged , and when at last we left the table , I felt my head dizzy and my steps a little uncertain . The other was at Rhayader at a time ...
... society . One of these was at a dinner at Mr. Sayce's , where the wine - drinking was especially prolonged , and when at last we left the table , I felt my head dizzy and my steps a little uncertain . The other was at Rhayader at a time ...
Page 158
... society . But at the time of which I am now writing such ideas never entered my head . I certainly thought it a pity to enclose a wild , picturesque , boggy , and barren moor , but I took it for granted that there was some right and ...
... society . But at the time of which I am now writing such ideas never entered my head . I certainly thought it a pity to enclose a wild , picturesque , boggy , and barren moor , but I took it for granted that there was some right and ...
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