Life and Times of the Right Honourable William Henry Smith, M.P.W. Blackwood and sons, 1893 |
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... character , or what store of achievement it should be possible to lay to his account , before the public are invited to the perusal of his biography . " Oh ! vain attempt to give a deathless lot To names ignoble , born to be forgot ...
... character , or what store of achievement it should be possible to lay to his account , before the public are invited to the perusal of his biography . " Oh ! vain attempt to give a deathless lot To names ignoble , born to be forgot ...
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... character of one lately de- parted , to avoid undue eulogy and to keep in right proportion incidents of private life which , however much their memory may be cherished by relatives and intimate friends , cannot be ex- pected to occupy ...
... character of one lately de- parted , to avoid undue eulogy and to keep in right proportion incidents of private life which , however much their memory may be cherished by relatives and intimate friends , cannot be ex- pected to occupy ...
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... character , it cer- tainly was the cause of lasting disappointment to himself , and often , in later years , he used to deplore bitterly the circumstances which had debarred him from acquiring a wider culture . After a couple of years ...
... character , it cer- tainly was the cause of lasting disappointment to himself , and often , in later years , he used to deplore bitterly the circumstances which had debarred him from acquiring a wider culture . After a couple of years ...
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... character as years brought him into different fields of labour , but were without intermission to its close . In this early begun and long- sustained work may be traced the source of that sense of weariness so often alluded to in the ...
... character as years brought him into different fields of labour , but were without intermission to its close . In this early begun and long- sustained work may be traced the source of that sense of weariness so often alluded to in the ...
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... character of young Smith . His father , though a peculiarly shrewd man of business , with a quick eye to the main chance , and constantly on the look - out for good in- vestments for his savings , was also scrupulously righteous , and ...
... character of young Smith . His father , though a peculiarly shrewd man of business , with a quick eye to the main chance , and constantly on the look - out for good in- vestments for his savings , was also scrupulously righteous , and ...
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