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... learned to read and write . His pronunciation was not correct , as may well be supposed : but it was deliberate and significant , free from provincial pecularities , and such as an Englishman would have understood ; and afterwards ...
... learned to read and write . His pronunciation was not correct , as may well be supposed : but it was deliberate and significant , free from provincial pecularities , and such as an Englishman would have understood ; and afterwards ...
Page 53
... learned enough mathematics to enable him in later life to handle the fairly complicated problems of measurement that faced an excise officer . His stay there also taught him what life was like in a smuggling town and provided him with ...
... learned enough mathematics to enable him in later life to handle the fairly complicated problems of measurement that faced an excise officer . His stay there also taught him what life was like in a smuggling town and provided him with ...
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... learned to ' turn ' a poem with such dexterity , moving it from its ostensible to its real subject without the reader's being aware of the shift . ) The poem opens with a rousing statement of its theme . The first three stanzas form a ...
... learned to ' turn ' a poem with such dexterity , moving it from its ostensible to its real subject without the reader's being aware of the shift . ) The poem opens with a rousing statement of its theme . The first three stanzas form a ...
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