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Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare) (1912)

Rowley, Charles · London ; New York : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 24

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ire turmoil. Myfather was at Peterloo. Later, in the hungry forties, we had aboundingdistress with suffering, of course. My motheroften told us that only at the consolations ensuingwhen one of the thirteen of us came did shehave tea in the house— except at a lying-in was her phrase. Tea was 6s. a… … THE AUTHOR.(Aged three.) The Hungry Forties My father, though in the ordinary acceptanceof the term he was not educated at all, had awonderful instinct for fine literature. The publi-cations of Charles Knight, an illustrated Bible,Shakspere, the Arabian Nights, and other volumes,were the backbone…

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