Recollections of past lifeD. Appleton and Company, 1872 - 351 lappuses |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 48.
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... English locality , as I believe , in which this plant has been found . Years after , when I came to look for it on the well - known place , it had wholly disappeared . In January 1799 , having entered my eleventh year , I went to ...
... English locality , as I believe , in which this plant has been found . Years after , when I came to look for it on the well - known place , it had wholly disappeared . In January 1799 , having entered my eleventh year , I went to ...
10. lappuse
... life , in conformity to a usage which , while fulfilling some useful purposes , has in its frequency become rather a heavy tax on English social existence . Another incident in the early part of my Newcastle life ΙΟ Recollections of.
... life , in conformity to a usage which , while fulfilling some useful purposes , has in its frequency become rather a heavy tax on English social existence . Another incident in the early part of my Newcastle life ΙΟ Recollections of.
12. lappuse
... English prose style it is enough to say that I have heard it warmly praised both by Mackintosh and Macaulay . Each specified the ' Essay on the Inconsistency of Human Expectations ' as an example of this excellence . This was my first ...
... English prose style it is enough to say that I have heard it warmly praised both by Mackintosh and Macaulay . Each specified the ' Essay on the Inconsistency of Human Expectations ' as an example of this excellence . This was my first ...
13. lappuse
... them , and one of the most notable peculiarities of English domestic life . I have known foreigners come to London , and quit it without having even seen these city creations of our augmenting rapidly under Past Life . 13.
... them , and one of the most notable peculiarities of English domestic life . I have known foreigners come to London , and quit it without having even seen these city creations of our augmenting rapidly under Past Life . 13.
23. lappuse
... English education , has ever been a favourite study with me . * Even at this early time of life I had a sin- gular pleasure in all that belonged to the Tyne — its tidal changes , floods , and windings - and I was accus- tomed to pursue ...
... English education , has ever been a favourite study with me . * Even at this early time of life I had a sin- gular pleasure in all that belonged to the Tyne — its tidal changes , floods , and windings - and I was accus- tomed to pursue ...
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197. lappuse - Alvanley's description of him, as " a conceited Muscovy duck," had an amusing personal reality about it, felt even by those who knew his high merits as a Judge and master of international law. His house curiously illustrated the habits of the man, in its utter destitution of all the appliances of luxury or comfort.- The furniture was never either changed or cleaned. Year after year I wrote prescriptions there with the same solitary pen — the single one, I believe, in his possession, and rarely...
270. lappuse - Looking especially at home, we find that the augmented speed and hurry of locomotion (and I can affirm that people walk faster in the London streets than they did when I first knew these great thoroughfares) is carried into every other department of life ; politics, commerce, literature, science, professional and social existence. The loiterers in life are fewer, and the charm of a tranquil leisure is less appreciated and sought after.