My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köideG. Bell & Sons, 1905 - 447 pages |
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Page 38
... whole New River supply being drawn from the river Lea or pumped up from deep wells near Ware . Thus does our morbid civilization destroy the most beautiful works of nature . This spring was , I believe , unequalled in the whole kingdom ...
... whole New River supply being drawn from the river Lea or pumped up from deep wells near Ware . Thus does our morbid civilization destroy the most beautiful works of nature . This spring was , I believe , unequalled in the whole kingdom ...
Page 41
... whole appearance of this channel was very strange and mysterious , as there was nothing like it anywhere else . We called it the Gulps or Gulphs , but it is now marked on the ordnance maps as Hag's Dell , showing that it was looked upon ...
... whole appearance of this channel was very strange and mysterious , as there was nothing like it anywhere else . We called it the Gulps or Gulphs , but it is now marked on the ordnance maps as Hag's Dell , showing that it was looked upon ...
Page 54
... whole passage correctly for us , using very nearly the same words as we had used , but arranging them in a very different order , and showing us that the very ideas involved and the whole construction of the sentence was totally ...
... whole passage correctly for us , using very nearly the same words as we had used , but arranging them in a very different order , and showing us that the very ideas involved and the whole construction of the sentence was totally ...
Page 61
... whole school . Like most other boys I was reckless about my clothes , leaning my elbows on the desk till a hole was worn in my jacket , and , worse still , when cleaning my slate using my cuff to rub it dry . Slate sponges attached by a ...
... whole school . Like most other boys I was reckless about my clothes , leaning my elbows on the desk till a hole was worn in my jacket , and , worse still , when cleaning my slate using my cuff to rub it dry . Slate sponges attached by a ...
Page 63
... whole home - life till I had a home of my own twenty - eight years later , and because it was in many ways more educational than the time I spent at school , I think it well to devote a separate chapter to a short account of it . During ...
... whole home - life till I had a home of my own twenty - eight years later , and because it was in many ways more educational than the time I spent at school , I think it well to devote a separate chapter to a short account of it . During ...
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