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... labour which he bestowed on the cultivation of our minds . My elder sister , who afterwards married the Rev. Mr. Marsh , chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury , was educated with her brothers . She was well acquainted with Greek and ...
... labour which he bestowed on the cultivation of our minds . My elder sister , who afterwards married the Rev. Mr. Marsh , chancellor of the diocese of Salisbury , was educated with her brothers . She was well acquainted with Greek and ...
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... labours . At nine or ten o'clock in the evening , after my day's work was concluded , I had to arrange my lec- tures for the following day , and this frequently occupied me until three or four o'clock on the following morning . On the ...
... labours . At nine or ten o'clock in the evening , after my day's work was concluded , I had to arrange my lec- tures for the following day , and this frequently occupied me until three or four o'clock on the following morning . On the ...
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... others , and which made a constant exertion necessary to keep him on a level with the increasing know- ledge of the day . In fact , his life was one of incessant labour , and he had no leisure for other 90 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE.
... others , and which made a constant exertion necessary to keep him on a level with the increasing know- ledge of the day . In fact , his life was one of incessant labour , and he had no leisure for other 90 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE LATE.
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Sir Benjamin Brodie. incessant labour , and he had no leisure for other pursuits . If Davy or Faraday had had large families to provide for , they would not have had sufficient leisure , nor sufficient freedom from anxiety , to ...
Sir Benjamin Brodie. incessant labour , and he had no leisure for other pursuits . If Davy or Faraday had had large families to provide for , they would not have had sufficient leisure , nor sufficient freedom from anxiety , to ...
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... labours have not been in vain , and that a great number of limbs are now preserved which would in former times have been amputated as a matter of course . Still , I am well aware that much yet remains to be done , and that it cannot be ...
... labours have not been in vain , and that a great number of limbs are now preserved which would in former times have been amputated as a matter of course . Still , I am well aware that much yet remains to be done , and that it cannot be ...
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