Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
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... BECOMES PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LORD ALTHORP , CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER - MISS MARTINEAU'S RECOLLEC- TIONS OF HIM - A PENSION IS CONFERRED UPON HIM HE BECOMES UNDER SECRETARY IN IRELAND - HIS MARRIAGE , 173-185 CHAPTER XIII . A REVIEW ...
... BECOMES PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LORD ALTHORP , CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER - MISS MARTINEAU'S RECOLLEC- TIONS OF HIM - A PENSION IS CONFERRED UPON HIM HE BECOMES UNDER SECRETARY IN IRELAND - HIS MARRIAGE , 173-185 CHAPTER XIII . A REVIEW ...
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... becoming every day more irksome , at last compels me to write to you ; and you are the best person to give me advice , as I should not like my mother to know , she being so unwell . I would give worlds , if I had them , to get my ...
... becoming every day more irksome , at last compels me to write to you ; and you are the best person to give me advice , as I should not like my mother to know , she being so unwell . I would give worlds , if I had them , to get my ...
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... becomes covered with a net- work of them , all whose angular points are precisely determined . The strides so taken , moderate at first , become gigantic at last ; steeples , towers , obelisks , mountain cairns , and snowy peaks , becoming ...
... becomes covered with a net- work of them , all whose angular points are precisely determined . The strides so taken , moderate at first , become gigantic at last ; steeples , towers , obelisks , mountain cairns , and snowy peaks , becoming ...
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... become com- mon - place to him . " Tuesday , 29th June . - Captain Colby took Robe ( Lieu- tenant ) and a small party of the men on a station - hunt , ' or pedestrian excursion , to explore the country along the eastern coast of ...
... become com- mon - place to him . " Tuesday , 29th June . - Captain Colby took Robe ( Lieu- tenant ) and a small party of the men on a station - hunt , ' or pedestrian excursion , to explore the country along the eastern coast of ...
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... becoming more stormy and wet . The mountains were all covered with snow , and the trigonometrical season was declared to be at an end . " Such had been Captain Colby's life for many years , and such was now to be Drummond's . One would ...
... becoming more stormy and wet . The mountains were all covered with snow , and the trigonometrical season was declared to be at an end . " Such had been Captain Colby's life for many years , and such was now to be Drummond's . One would ...
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Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R. E. , F. R. A. S. , Under Secretary to the Lord ... John Ferguson McLennan No preview available - 2020 |
Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R. E., F. R. A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord ... John F. M'lennan No preview available - 2016 |
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