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... kind and considerate landlord , liberal and charitable to all around him , and a true model of a Christian gentleman . He had for several years been member for Lanarkshire , and had always lived on intimate terms with the leading ...
... kind and considerate landlord , liberal and charitable to all around him , and a true model of a Christian gentleman . He had for several years been member for Lanarkshire , and had always lived on intimate terms with the leading ...
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... kind -Miss Agnes Strickland who was a frequent guest for weeks together at Pollok House . This able and learned lady was then writing the latter volumes of her highly interesting ' Lives of the Queens of England , ' and making ...
... kind -Miss Agnes Strickland who was a frequent guest for weeks together at Pollok House . This able and learned lady was then writing the latter volumes of her highly interesting ' Lives of the Queens of England , ' and making ...
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... kind enough to sit with me for two hours , and was really very entertaining , from the number of anecdotes she recounted of queens in the olden time . When she left the room she expressed herself kindly to Mrs Alison , as to the ...
... kind enough to sit with me for two hours , and was really very entertaining , from the number of anecdotes she recounted of queens in the olden time . When she left the room she expressed herself kindly to Mrs Alison , as to the ...
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... kind and highly valued friend Sir John Maxwell of Pollok , near Glasgow ; and he became a frequent guest of ours at Possil House . It was impossible to figure a man of great talent and acuteness with more pleasing manners . His health ...
... kind and highly valued friend Sir John Maxwell of Pollok , near Glasgow ; and he became a frequent guest of ours at Possil House . It was impossible to figure a man of great talent and acuteness with more pleasing manners . His health ...
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... kind , and little acquaintance was required to learn that this was not the result of merely external cour- tesy , but flowed from genuine benevolence of heart . In conversation he was quick , and in the expression of opinion vigorous ...
... kind , and little acquaintance was required to learn that this was not the result of merely external cour- tesy , but flowed from genuine benevolence of heart . In conversation he was quick , and in the expression of opinion vigorous ...
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Some Account of My Life and Writings: An Autobiography, Volume 2 Archibald Alison Visualização integral - 1883 |
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Página 542 - It is difficult to estimate too highly the value of such a series as this in giving 'English readers' an insight, exact as far as it goes, into those olden times which are so remote and yet to many of us so close.
Página 543 - ALISON. History of Europe. By Sir ARCHIBALD ALISON, Bart DCL 1. From the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Battle of Waterloo. LIBRARY EDITION, 14 vols., with Portraits. Demy 8vo, £10, 10s.