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... ideas ahead of his age was Lord Churston , who , in 1858 , declined to take shares in the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway , on the ground that no Member of Parliament should hold shares in any railway on which he may have to legislate ...
... ideas ahead of his age was Lord Churston , who , in 1858 , declined to take shares in the Dartmouth and Torbay Railway , on the ground that no Member of Parliament should hold shares in any railway on which he may have to legislate ...
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... idea how gloomy and dark the streets of London used to be at night . Instead of the murky gloom which used to prevail on winter evenings , the metropolis now fairly blazes with electric light . In the way of lighting , old London , I ...
... idea how gloomy and dark the streets of London used to be at night . Instead of the murky gloom which used to prevail on winter evenings , the metropolis now fairly blazes with electric light . In the way of lighting , old London , I ...
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... idea was to publish a new journal which should reproduce the form and spirit of Canning's Anti - Jacobin , but the plan of the evening newspaper , as eventually agreed upon with the late Mr. George Smith , whose firm assumed the ...
... idea was to publish a new journal which should reproduce the form and spirit of Canning's Anti - Jacobin , but the plan of the evening newspaper , as eventually agreed upon with the late Mr. George Smith , whose firm assumed the ...
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... ideas of another this was very applicable to a certain number of the minor writers of the Victorian age . -- Of late we have heard something about " demoral- izing literature . " I do not think there are any publications to - day so ...
... ideas of another this was very applicable to a certain number of the minor writers of the Victorian age . -- Of late we have heard something about " demoral- izing literature . " I do not think there are any publications to - day so ...
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... idea getting about amongst the ship's company actually caused some of the men to leave , declaring that they had ... ideas have been mooted to abolish.
... idea getting about amongst the ship's company actually caused some of the men to leave , declaring that they had ... ideas have been mooted to abolish.
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