My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
From inside the book
Results 6-10 of 52
Page 24
... reached the town , which was and is entirely confined to the east side of the river , while we lived on the west . The walk there was a very pleasant one , with the clear , swift - flowing river on one side and the narrow fields and ...
... reached the town , which was and is entirely confined to the east side of the river , while we lived on the west . The walk there was a very pleasant one , with the clear , swift - flowing river on one side and the narrow fields and ...
Page 30
... reached London late in the evening , as I do not remember staying a night on the way , and the stage then travelled at an average speed of ten miles an hour over good roads and in the summer time . The monotony of the journey probably ...
... reached London late in the evening , as I do not remember staying a night on the way , and the stage then travelled at an average speed of ten miles an hour over good roads and in the summer time . The monotony of the journey probably ...
Page 39
... reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company , now a public school . All round here the country was woody ...
... reached Hertford Heath at a height of three hundred feet above the sea , and half a mile further was Haileybury College , then a training college for the East India Company , now a public school . All round here the country was woody ...
Page 49
... reached by a path along the bottom of All Saints ' Churchyard , and entered by a door in the wall which entirely surrounded the school playground and master's garden . Over this door was a Latin motto- " Inter umbras Academi studere ...
... reached by a path along the bottom of All Saints ' Churchyard , and entered by a door in the wall which entirely surrounded the school playground and master's garden . Over this door was a Latin motto- " Inter umbras Academi studere ...
Page 52
... reached its height . Though rather contemptuous to the younger boys , he was , I think , a pretty fair teacher . I learnt French from him for about two or three years , and though he taught us nothing colloquially , and could not , I ...
... reached its height . Though rather contemptuous to the younger boys , he was , I think , a pretty fair teacher . I learnt French from him for about two or three years , and though he taught us nothing colloquially , and could not , I ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
A. R. Wallace acquaintance afterwards Amazon animals Aru Islands beautiful beetles birds of paradise boys Brecknockshire brother butterflies called character collections colour Darwin delight England English fact father feet forest garden gave George Silk give Greenell half heard Hertford Hoddesdon hundred insects interesting island journey kind land letter lived Lombok London look Malacca Malay Archipelago miles Moluccas months mountain native Natural Selection nature nearly Neath never obtained origin of species paper parish perhaps plants portion Radnorshire remark remember Rio Negro river rock Sarawak seemed seen side Singapore Sir Charles sister sketch slope soon species stayed surveying Ternate thought Tidore tion told took town tropical Uaupés valley various village voyage walk Wallace week Welsh whole wood