My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 11
... father's marriage . It shows that the work must have been of large quarto size , in no way of a popular character , and too costly to have any chance of commercial success . After a very few numbers were issued the whole thing came to ...
... father's marriage . It shows that the work must have been of large quarto size , in no way of a popular character , and too costly to have any chance of commercial success . After a very few numbers were issued the whole thing came to ...
Page 12
... father may rightly consider himself an ill - used man , though wholly denying that he , Mr. Rendall , had any part in bringing about his misfortunes . The result was that my father had to bear almost the whole loss , and this ...
... father may rightly consider himself an ill - used man , though wholly denying that he , Mr. Rendall , had any part in bringing about his misfortunes . The result was that my father had to bear almost the whole loss , and this ...
Page 13
... father passed the last few years of his life in comparative freedom from worry about money matters , because these ... father's small capital , in the absolute belief that it was quite as safe an investment as the ground - rents in which ...
... father passed the last few years of his life in comparative freedom from worry about money matters , because these ... father's small capital , in the absolute belief that it was quite as safe an investment as the ground - rents in which ...
Page 14
... father's death in 1843 , she obtained a position as a teacher in Columbia College , Georgia , U.S.A. , then just established under the Bishop of Georgia ; and she only returned after my brother William's death in 1846 , when the ...
... father's death in 1843 , she obtained a position as a teacher in Columbia College , Georgia , U.S.A. , then just established under the Bishop of Georgia ; and she only returned after my brother William's death in 1846 , when the ...
Page 15
... father a certain amount of constitutional inactivity or laziness , the necessity for work that our circumstances ... father's loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in disguise . Of the five daughters , the first - born died when ...
... father a certain amount of constitutional inactivity or laziness , the necessity for work that our circumstances ... father's loss of his property was perhaps a blessing in disguise . Of the five daughters , the first - born died when ...
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