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... John Lawrence at Hailey- bury , thirty years before , gives us an account of an in- terview he had with Mr Le Bas , who had been Dean at Haileybury in John Lawrence's time . He writes : — When I was at home on furlough Brighton to pay ...
... John Lawrence at Hailey- bury , thirty years before , gives us an account of an in- terview he had with Mr Le Bas , who had been Dean at Haileybury in John Lawrence's time . He writes : — When I was at home on furlough Brighton to pay ...
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C. C. Cotterill. to me , " Hallet , who is this John Lawrence of whom I hear so much ? " To which I replied , " Don't you remember a tall , thin Irishman with whom I much consorted , who once kept an Irish revel of bonfires on the grass ...
C. C. Cotterill. to me , " Hallet , who is this John Lawrence of whom I hear so much ? " To which I replied , " Don't you remember a tall , thin Irishman with whom I much consorted , who once kept an Irish revel of bonfires on the grass ...
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... the broad , wholesome , healthy atmosphere which pervades the writings of such men as Sir Walter Scott and Dr John Brown , and their intense and living K sympathy with and knowledge of the poorest classes , to EXCLUSIVENESS . 153.
... the broad , wholesome , healthy atmosphere which pervades the writings of such men as Sir Walter Scott and Dr John Brown , and their intense and living K sympathy with and knowledge of the poorest classes , to EXCLUSIVENESS . 153.
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... John Brown himself , speaking to me once of the variety of classes that fre- quented the Edinburgh High School , and its democratic constitution when he was a boy there , expressed it as follows that your coachman's son might be the ...
... John Brown himself , speaking to me once of the variety of classes that fre- quented the Edinburgh High School , and its democratic constitution when he was a boy there , expressed it as follows that your coachman's son might be the ...
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... JOHN KENT , Private Trainer to the Good- wood Stable . Edited by the Hon . FRANCIS LAWLEY . With Twenty - three full- page Plates , and Facsimile Letter . Second Edition . Demy 8vo , 25s . BESANT . The Revolt of Man . Crown 8vo , 3s ...
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