My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideChapman & Hall, Ld., 1905 |
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Page 169
... Islands , is thoroughly justified . Our two other indigenous Celtic languages , Gaelic and Irish , or Erse , appear to have a far less vigorous literary existence . I am informed by the Secretary of the National Bible Society of ...
... Islands , is thoroughly justified . Our two other indigenous Celtic languages , Gaelic and Irish , or Erse , appear to have a far less vigorous literary existence . I am informed by the Secretary of the National Bible Society of ...
Page 195
... Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy , and foxglove , and a very few others equally common and popular , and this ...
... Islands . It must be remembered that my ignorance of plants at this time was extreme . I knew the wild rose , bramble , haw- thorn , buttercup , poppy , daisy , and foxglove , and a very few others equally common and popular , and this ...
Page 222
... island , a part which will well repay the trouble of a visit , as much for its lovely vales , noble mountains , and foaming cascades , as for the old customs and still older language of the inhabitants of the little white - washed ...
... island , a part which will well repay the trouble of a visit , as much for its lovely vales , noble mountains , and foaming cascades , as for the old customs and still older language of the inhabitants of the little white - washed ...
Page 246
... Island Life , " the " Malay Archipelago , " and other books is the same Mr. Alfred Wallace who taught in the evening science classes to the Neath Abbey artificers . He writes- " I have often had a desire to know , as I benefited more ...
... Island Life , " the " Malay Archipelago , " and other books is the same Mr. Alfred Wallace who taught in the evening science classes to the Neath Abbey artificers . He writes- " I have often had a desire to know , as I benefited more ...
Page 271
... island of Marajó , opposite Para , is equally flat , and the smaller island of Mexiana ( pronounced Mishiána ) , which is about forty miles long , is even more so , there not being , I believe , a rise or fall of ten feet over the whole ...
... island of Marajó , opposite Para , is equally flat , and the smaller island of Mexiana ( pronounced Mishiána ) , which is about forty miles long , is even more so , there not being , I believe , a rise or fall of ten feet over the whole ...
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