Francis Turner Palgrave: His Journals and Memories of His LifeLongmans, Green, 1899 - 276 pages |
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... Frank's amusement , as a child , to construe the sermon into blank verse whilst it was being delivered . His mother's Journal thus describes him shortly before he was two years old : Frank listens with much interest to accounts of any ...
... Frank's amusement , as a child , to construe the sermon into blank verse whilst it was being delivered . His mother's Journal thus describes him shortly before he was two years old : Frank listens with much interest to accounts of any ...
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... Frank does not make a rapid progress in his book at present - he seems unable to understand that the letters are the symbols of the sound : if pronounced to him , he spells them very fairly by ear , but not by eye . . . . His memory is ...
... Frank does not make a rapid progress in his book at present - he seems unable to understand that the letters are the symbols of the sound : if pronounced to him , he spells them very fairly by ear , but not by eye . . . . His memory is ...
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... Frank always loved and admired with an almost touching reverence through the many changes of his very varied career . Soon after this began the intimacy with Baron Alderson's children , which was to prove indeed a lifelong friendship ...
... Frank always loved and admired with an almost touching reverence through the many changes of his very varied career . Soon after this began the intimacy with Baron Alderson's children , which was to prove indeed a lifelong friendship ...
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... Frank had taken as much pleasure in writing his , and , indeed , both did them in their playtime . ' ' April 11 , 1834 . The children had three weeks ' holiday , during which F. and G. learnt perfectly all the first book of the Æneid by ...
... Frank had taken as much pleasure in writing his , and , indeed , both did them in their playtime . ' ' April 11 , 1834 . The children had three weeks ' holiday , during which F. and G. learnt perfectly all the first book of the Æneid by ...
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... than Mr. Carr . . . uses to urge Frank and Giffy on- pointing out to them all the niceties in Latin and Greek which a dictionary cannot explain . . . . They are indeed well taught but , alas ! the idlenesses and follies FIRST JOURNAL 15.
... than Mr. Carr . . . uses to urge Frank and Giffy on- pointing out to them all the niceties in Latin and Greek which a dictionary cannot explain . . . . They are indeed well taught but , alas ! the idlenesses and follies FIRST JOURNAL 15.
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