My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 75
... deal of Byron and Scott , some of the Spectator and Rambler , Southey's " Curse of Kehama , " and , in fact , almost any book that I heard spoken of as celebrated or interesting . At this time " Pickwick " was coming out in monthly ...
... deal of Byron and Scott , some of the Spectator and Rambler , Southey's " Curse of Kehama , " and , in fact , almost any book that I heard spoken of as celebrated or interesting . At this time " Pickwick " was coming out in monthly ...
Page 76
... deal talked about , and it occasioned quite an excitement among the masters in the Grammar School . Walton's " Angler " was a favourite of my father's , and I well remember a wood - cut illustration of Dove Dale with greatly exaggerated ...
... deal talked about , and it occasioned quite an excitement among the masters in the Grammar School . Walton's " Angler " was a favourite of my father's , and I well remember a wood - cut illustration of Dove Dale with greatly exaggerated ...
Page 80
... deal about how they lived , and knew exactly what they earned , and I am thus enabled to correct some very erroneous statements which have been made of late years as to the condition of artisans in the early part of the nineteenth ...
... deal about how they lived , and knew exactly what they earned , and I am thus enabled to correct some very erroneous statements which have been made of late years as to the condition of artisans in the early part of the nineteenth ...
Page 82
... deals with the real value or purchasing power of this greatly exaggerated increase of wages that we find the grossest errors and the wildest declamation . After just remarking that " sugar and such articles " have decreased greatly in ...
... deals with the real value or purchasing power of this greatly exaggerated increase of wages that we find the grossest errors and the wildest declamation . After just remarking that " sugar and such articles " have decreased greatly in ...
Page 85
... deal with such questions as these , mainly because they know nothing at first hand of the lives of the workers and thus omit to take account of some of the most essential factors in the problem at issue . Thus Mr. Giffen slurs over and ...
... deal with such questions as these , mainly because they know nothing at first hand of the lives of the workers and thus omit to take account of some of the most essential factors in the problem at issue . Thus Mr. Giffen slurs over and ...
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