Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 328William Blackwood, 1980 |
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Page 245
... father was an enthusiast of big - game hunting , a sport which soon gripped his eldest son's imagination and continued to attract him for over thirty years . Together Thesiger and his father sat up for leopard . One of his earliest ...
... father was an enthusiast of big - game hunting , a sport which soon gripped his eldest son's imagination and continued to attract him for over thirty years . Together Thesiger and his father sat up for leopard . One of his earliest ...
Page 246
... father's addiction to hunting , Thesiger's passion for books of this sort is hardly surprising . As a young child , he had already become familiar with much of their background , and his family life , reflected in the contents of Powell ...
... father's addiction to hunting , Thesiger's passion for books of this sort is hardly surprising . As a young child , he had already become familiar with much of their background , and his family life , reflected in the contents of Powell ...
Page 277
... father , in June 1796 , is written from Oxford , where he appears to have returned briefly to resume a resident fellowship . He gives a detailed account of his precarious financial position , begging an extra ten pounds from his father ...
... father , in June 1796 , is written from Oxford , where he appears to have returned briefly to resume a resident fellowship . He gives a detailed account of his precarious financial position , begging an extra ten pounds from his father ...
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