My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 46
... given me to drink all night . I was told afterwards that the doctor said this was the crisis , that I was to have port wine in tea - spoonfuls at short intervals , and that if I was not dead before morning I might recover . For some ...
... given me to drink all night . I was told afterwards that the doctor said this was the crisis , that I was to have port wine in tea - spoonfuls at short intervals , and that if I was not dead before morning I might recover . For some ...
Page 50
... given up as " a thoroughly lazy , bad boy , who was a disgrace to the school , " and thereafter left to go his own way . Such boys were often very good playfellows , and the magisterial denunciations had little effect upon us . Mr ...
... given up as " a thoroughly lazy , bad boy , who was a disgrace to the school , " and thereafter left to go his own way . Such boys were often very good playfellows , and the magisterial denunciations had little effect upon us . Mr ...
Page 55
... 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 order as belonging ...
... 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 order as belonging ...
Page 81
... given as a Presidential Address to the Statistical Society in 1883 , and issued as a pamphlet , price threepence , in 1884 , at the request of several friends , including Mr. Gladstone , who styled it " a masterly paper . " It would ...
... given as a Presidential Address to the Statistical Society in 1883 , and issued as a pamphlet , price threepence , in 1884 , at the request of several friends , including Mr. Gladstone , who styled it " a masterly paper . " It would ...
Page 83
... given or expected . All the joiner's work was done in shops , gene- rally well lighted and with good sanitary conditions ; nothing but the rough carpenter's work was done in buildings before the roof was on . Working hours were from 6 ...
... given or expected . All the joiner's work was done in shops , gene- rally well lighted and with good sanitary conditions ; nothing but the rough carpenter's work was done in buildings before the roof was on . Working hours were from 6 ...
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