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" Hours after midnight the light was seen to glimmer through the window of that room which within the same eventful week was to witness the close of the volume, and the close of the writer's life. This over-working of the brain began to tell upon his mental... "
Courtship and Matrimony: With Other Sketches from Scenes and Experiences in ... - Page 427
by Robert Morris - 1858 - 508 pages
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The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 60

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....
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

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....
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Hardwicke's Annual biography, by E. Walford

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."...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 40

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....
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

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,...
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The Testimony of the Rocks, Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ...

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....
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 40

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...
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The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

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...
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Labour & Triumph: The Life and Times of Hugh Miller

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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