Life of William Henry SmithW. Blackwood and Sons, 1894 - 378 sider |
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Side 14
... asked him why he was so downcast . " Perhaps you would be downcast , Mr Smith , " was the reply , " if you had come to Saturday night , and had no money to pay your men . The architect is out of London , and I can't get a certificate ...
... asked him why he was so downcast . " Perhaps you would be downcast , Mr Smith , " was the reply , " if you had come to Saturday night , and had no money to pay your men . The architect is out of London , and I can't get a certificate ...
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... asked to do so . Another letter to the same , written a month later , gives the impression made on young Smith by a well - known individual : - I have had an interview with the great George Hudson , the Rail- way King . The ' Times ...
... asked to do so . Another letter to the same , written a month later , gives the impression made on young Smith by a well - known individual : - I have had an interview with the great George Hudson , the Rail- way King . The ' Times ...
Side 24
... asked by the Bodleian Librarian to sign her name in the book provided for distinguished visitors , refused , saying , " No ; Oxford is so great and I am so little . " The circumstances of Smith's boyhood and youth forbade the planting ...
... asked by the Bodleian Librarian to sign her name in the book provided for distinguished visitors , refused , saying , " No ; Oxford is so great and I am so little . " The circumstances of Smith's boyhood and youth forbade the planting ...
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... asked for publications of the worst character at the railway bookstall , and , being unable to obtain them , have suddenly disappeared . Cheap literature is a paying literature , if judiciously managed . A host of readers are · An 1 The ...
... asked for publications of the worst character at the railway bookstall , and , being unable to obtain them , have suddenly disappeared . Cheap literature is a paying literature , if judiciously managed . A host of readers are · An 1 The ...
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... asked the name of the gentleman who had acted as secretary on that occasion , for he said he had been so favourably impressed with his business - like qualities in the short time he had witnessed them that he wished to meet him again ...
... asked the name of the gentleman who had acted as secretary on that occasion , for he said he had been so favourably impressed with his business - like qualities in the short time he had witnessed them that he wished to meet him again ...
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