My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 52
... fact that one language is much more difficult than the other , but more to the method of instruction . Had half the time been devoted to teaching us simple colloquial Latin thoroughly , I feel sure it would have been far more useful to ...
... fact that one language is much more difficult than the other , but more to the method of instruction . Had half the time been devoted to teaching us simple colloquial Latin thoroughly , I feel sure it would have been far more useful to ...
Page 55
... facts were ever given in connection with these names , no accounts of the country by travellers were ever read , no good maps ever given us , nothing but the horrid stream of unin- telligible place - names , to be learnt in their due ...
... facts were ever given in connection with these names , no accounts of the country by travellers were ever read , no good maps ever given us , nothing but the horrid stream of unin- telligible place - names , to be learnt in their due ...
Page 75
... fact , almost any book that I heard spoken of as celebrated or interesting . At this time " Pickwick " was coming out in monthly parts , and I had the opportunity of reading bits of it , but I do not think I read it through till a ...
... fact , almost any book that I heard spoken of as celebrated or interesting . At this time " Pickwick " was coming out in monthly parts , and I had the opportunity of reading bits of it , but I do not think I read it through till a ...
Page 78
... fact or connected reason- ing to satisfy my intellect , this feeling soon left me , and has never returned . Among our Quaker friends were two or three to whose houses we were occasionally invited , and I remember being greatly ...
... fact or connected reason- ing to satisfy my intellect , this feeling soon left me , and has never returned . Among our Quaker friends were two or three to whose houses we were occasionally invited , and I remember being greatly ...
Page 81
... fact which he notices , that , at the date of his paper as now , in all the building trades wages are reckoned and paid by the hour , instead of by the day as at the VOL . I. G earlier period , when also men were rarely discharged ...
... fact which he notices , that , at the date of his paper as now , in all the building trades wages are reckoned and paid by the hour , instead of by the day as at the VOL . I. G earlier period , when also men were rarely discharged ...
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