Littell's Living Age, Volume 113Living Age Company Incorporated, 1872 |
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... mother was a wo- man of the country , peaceable , religious , and orderly ; his father a man from the north , of a sterner and higher type of character . Robert was the eldest of seven children , born to toil and to spare ; to live ...
... mother was a wo- man of the country , peaceable , religious , and orderly ; his father a man from the north , of a sterner and higher type of character . Robert was the eldest of seven children , born to toil and to spare ; to live ...
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en and parlour and hall - the croon of their mother's long low songs lingering in their ears , and their hearts still ... mother moved but and ben while the fire- distress , we with one voice desired he side lessons were going on , and ...
en and parlour and hall - the croon of their mother's long low songs lingering in their ears , and their hearts still ... mother moved but and ben while the fire- distress , we with one voice desired he side lessons were going on , and ...
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... mother's head , and the household held together , which it had been old William Burns's aim and pride to keep together . He kept free of debt , which he held in purest terror , upon £ 7 a year , as his brother Gilbert testifies ...
... mother's head , and the household held together , which it had been old William Burns's aim and pride to keep together . He kept free of debt , which he held in purest terror , upon £ 7 a year , as his brother Gilbert testifies ...
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... mother's head , to preserve the child . Why the father and mother should humble independence of men who were have thus chosen disgrace for their daugh- their own masters , and not hired servants , ter is one of the utterly unexplainable ...
... mother's head , to preserve the child . Why the father and mother should humble independence of men who were have thus chosen disgrace for their daugh- their own masters , and not hired servants , ter is one of the utterly unexplainable ...
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... mother busy with a house- And thus he died - thirty - seven years wife's ordinary labour . This , we say , was visible to everybody who chanced to pass that way ; and the days ran on quietly , and the world grew used to the sight , and ...
... mother busy with a house- And thus he died - thirty - seven years wife's ordinary labour . This , we say , was visible to everybody who chanced to pass that way ; and the days ran on quietly , and the world grew used to the sight , and ...
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