Passages of a Working Life: During Half a Century, with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences, Volume 2Irish University Press, 1864 |
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... amidst the multitude which daily crowded about the shop of “ T. McLean , 26 , Haymarket , where Political and other Caricatures are daily publishing . " Thus runs the imprint of one who was the chief patron of humourists for the age who ...
... amidst the multitude which daily crowded about the shop of “ T. McLean , 26 , Haymarket , where Political and other Caricatures are daily publishing . " Thus runs the imprint of one who was the chief patron of humourists for the age who ...
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... Amidst these palpable hits at passing follies , we have glimpses of what had begun to be called " The March of Intellect . " The " Breakfast and Reading- Room " has on its door - post a list of works within , including " all the ...
... Amidst these palpable hits at passing follies , we have glimpses of what had begun to be called " The March of Intellect . " The " Breakfast and Reading- Room " has on its door - post a list of works within , including " all the ...
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... Amidst the March of Intellect we have glimpses of the old reign of uncivilisation . " Crowd- ing to the Pit " exhibits " Theatrical Pleasures , ” - women trodden under foot ; men fighting ; and the pickpocket easing the struggling ...
... Amidst the March of Intellect we have glimpses of the old reign of uncivilisation . " Crowd- ing to the Pit " exhibits " Theatrical Pleasures , ” - women trodden under foot ; men fighting ; and the pickpocket easing the struggling ...
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... amidst unwonted sights , could then be observed entering the old - fashioned gateway of the British Museum , —the sturdy Briton proudly feeling that the place was his own , and that he had a right of entrance . During the holiday weeks ...
... amidst unwonted sights , could then be observed entering the old - fashioned gateway of the British Museum , —the sturdy Briton proudly feeling that the place was his own , and that he had a right of entrance . During the holiday weeks ...
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... amidst smiling vendors of eggs and poultry in their wondrous caps and sabots , who did not seem as if they ever toiled in the harvest time as we had seen some of their hard - worked country - women . We now rush from London to Paris in ...
... amidst smiling vendors of eggs and poultry in their wondrous caps and sabots , who did not seem as if they ever toiled in the harvest time as we had seen some of their hard - worked country - women . We now rush from London to Paris in ...
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