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... mother : - MIDCALDER , 1803 . DEAR MOTHER , - Mother , you have lost your wager , for I asked Mr Sommers and Mr Cruickshanks both , who both were B astonished at me asking such a question , as any LIFE AT MIDCALDER . 17.
... mother : - MIDCALDER , 1803 . DEAR MOTHER , - Mother , you have lost your wager , for I asked Mr Sommers and Mr Cruickshanks both , who both were B astonished at me asking such a question , as any LIFE AT MIDCALDER . 17.
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John Veitch. astonished at me asking such a question , as any child of ten years old knows that the sun is nearer us in winter than in summer ; but to convince you still more , I , when I was looking over a French geography , saw this ...
John Veitch. astonished at me asking such a question , as any child of ten years old knows that the sun is nearer us in winter than in summer ; but to convince you still more , I , when I was looking over a French geography , saw this ...
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... question I saw no decay of intellectual vigour , but saw , or fancied I saw , a change in the temper of the man . There was something of acrimony , and a tenacity about matters which his noble nature , when I knew him , would have dis ...
... question I saw no decay of intellectual vigour , but saw , or fancied I saw , a change in the temper of the man . There was something of acrimony , and a tenacity about matters which his noble nature , when I knew him , would have dis ...
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... question . It would seem that , while staying in Oxford during the long vacation , the fruit of a famous mulberry - tree , which grew in the College gardens , had attracted the longing eye of the Balliol under- graduate . Bringing into ...
... question . It would seem that , while staying in Oxford during the long vacation , the fruit of a famous mulberry - tree , which grew in the College gardens , had attracted the longing eye of the Balliol under- graduate . Bringing into ...
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... questions of speculation , must be ascribed to the native intensity and persistency of his intellectual character . Further , in the absence of systematic instruction in philo- sophy , Hamilton experienced no compensating influence in ...
... questions of speculation , must be ascribed to the native intensity and persistency of his intellectual character . Further , in the absence of systematic instruction in philo- sophy , Hamilton experienced no compensating influence in ...
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Página 403 - MY days among the Dead are past ; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.