An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My EducationCarter, 1877 - 537 páginas |
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... Night , and a storm.— Imaginary evils often greatly worse than real ones . - A midnight voice from the rocks . Deliverance . - The incident immortalized in some enormously bad verse ....... 50 CHAPTER V. " Letters of a Village Governess ...
... Night , and a storm.— Imaginary evils often greatly worse than real ones . - A midnight voice from the rocks . Deliverance . - The incident immortalized in some enormously bad verse ....... 50 CHAPTER V. " Letters of a Village Governess ...
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... Night among strangers . - Cromarty . - The end of the righteous.- Further desolations of death . - Glimpses of the past . - Witch - burning . - Tales ɔf Culloden ........ 102 CHAPTER VII . The subscription school and its schoolmasters ...
... Night among strangers . - Cromarty . - The end of the righteous.- Further desolations of death . - Glimpses of the past . - Witch - burning . - Tales ɔf Culloden ........ 102 CHAPTER VII . The subscription school and its schoolmasters ...
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... night - squall , with some of the best seamen aboard , in fruitless attempts to furl up the sail , he had to descend , cap in hand , at the risk of a flogging , and humbly implore the boy - lieutenant in charge that he should order the ...
... night - squall , with some of the best seamen aboard , in fruitless attempts to furl up the sail , he had to descend , cap in hand , at the risk of a flogging , and humbly implore the boy - lieutenant in charge that he should order the ...
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... night , they bore out to sea . The breeze soon freshened into a gale ; the gale swelled into a hurricane , accompanied by a thick snow - storm ; and when , early next morning , the smack opened the Frith , she was staggering un ler her ...
... night , they bore out to sea . The breeze soon freshened into a gale ; the gale swelled into a hurricane , accompanied by a thick snow - storm ; and when , early next morning , the smack opened the Frith , she was staggering un ler her ...
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... night came on . We made all tight , however ; and though the snow - drift was so blinding in the thick of the show er that I could scarce see my hand before me , and though it soon began to blow great guns , we had given the land a good ...
... night came on . We made all tight , however ; and though the snow - drift was so blinding in the thick of the show er that I could scarce see my hand before me , and though it soon began to blow great guns , we had given the land a good ...
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