| Thomas N. Brown - 1859 - 360 pages
...the close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to teU upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...overmastering impression that his house, and especially that his museum, the fruit of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed... | |
| Literature - 1859 - 868 pages
...close of the writer's life. This over-working of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...his house, and especially that Museum, the fruit of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed to the assault of burglars.... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 540 pages
...close of the writer's life. This over-working of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...his house, and especially that Museum, the fruit of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed to the assault of burglars.... | |
| Edward Walford - 1857 - 274 pages
...close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...his house, and especially that museum, the fruit of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed to the assault of burglars."... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He nad always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...his house, and especially that Museum, the fruit of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed to the assault of burglars.... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 532 pages
...close of the writer's life. This over-working of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...himself with a revolver. But now, to all his old fears asto attacks upon his person, there was added an exciting and overmastering impression that his house,... | |
| Hugh Miller - Bible and geology - 1857 - 524 pages
...close of the writer's life. This over-working of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...his person. Latterly, having occasion sometimes to rcturn to Portobello from Edinburgh at unseasonable hours, he had furnished himself with a revolver.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 588 pages
...close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being attacked by footpads and had carried loaded firearius about his person. Latterly, having occasion sometimes to return to Portobello from Edinburgh... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - Evolution (Biology) - 1858 - 368 pages
...close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...overmastering impression that his house, and especially that his museum, the fruit .of so much care, which was contained in a separate outer building, were exposed... | |
| Thomas N. Brown - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 340 pages
...close of the writer's life. This overworking of the brain began to tell upon his mental health. He had always been somewhat moodily apprehensive of being...by footpads, and had carried loaded fire-arms about Ilia person. Latterly, having occasion sometimes to return to Portobello from Edinburgh at unseasonable... | |
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