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Page vi
MR DRUMMOND BECOMES PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LORD ALTHORP ,
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER -- MISS MARTINEAU'S
RECOLLECTIONS OF HIM - A PENSION IS CONFERRED UPON HIM - HE
BECOMES UNDER ...
MR DRUMMOND BECOMES PRIVATE SECRETARY TO LORD ALTHORP ,
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER -- MISS MARTINEAU'S
RECOLLECTIONS OF HIM - A PENSION IS CONFERRED UPON HIM - HE
BECOMES UNDER ...
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The indefinite object of his inclinations having become definite , desire changed
to aversion . The system , from the first intolerable , soon became hateful .
Moreover , he was now in a position to understand the nature of the career he
had ...
The indefinite object of his inclinations having become definite , desire changed
to aversion . The system , from the first intolerable , soon became hateful .
Moreover , he was now in a position to understand the nature of the career he
had ...
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The strides so taken , moderate at first , become gigantic at last ; steeples , towers
, obelisks , mountain cairns , and snowy peaks , becoming in turn the stepping -
stones for further progress , the distances being only limited by the range of ...
The strides so taken , moderate at first , become gigantic at last ; steeples , towers
, obelisks , mountain cairns , and snowy peaks , becoming in turn the stepping -
stones for further progress , the distances being only limited by the range of ...
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This was Dawson ' s first season on the mountain tops , and he made notes at the
time of facts which must have afterwards become common - place to him . “
Tuesday , 29th June . - Captain Colby took Robe ( Lieutenant ) and a small party
of ...
This was Dawson ' s first season on the mountain tops , and he made notes at the
time of facts which must have afterwards become common - place to him . “
Tuesday , 29th June . - Captain Colby took Robe ( Lieutenant ) and a small party
of ...
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The weather was now daily 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 ...
The weather was now daily 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 ...
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| Title | Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835-1840 |
| Author | John Ferguson McLennan |
| Publisher | Edmonston and Douglas, 1867 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 16 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 475 pages |
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