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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...which tries to express itself in many closely written pages. Crossing into Italy by the Stelvio Pass, a sharp but passing fit of illness detained Cole... ...ge of a pupil, the son of Lord John Thynne, with whom he was to go through Italy. The journey was made by sea from Marseilles to Naples, where the old... ...away from each other; and some other time I hope you will be able to go to Italy, and enjoy all the wonders there, though a tour for health’s sake can... ...ry meaning at- tached to them, unless they can be illustrated from cognate languages. Now I have a taste for these things, and have in three weeks pro... ...now without doubt, that I have laid the foundation for a study of Oriental languages, if I have time and opportunity that may be fairly given to them.... ... and not say anything about it. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the for...

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