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At the age of nineteen, he inherited a farm near Durham, but did not enjoy the experience of farming and so returned to East Haddam a year later to prepare to enter Yale.
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At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.
At the age of 17 he became an apprentice machinist at the shop of Walcott & Harris in Valley Falls, Rhode Island, and following two or three other jobs in quick succession after graduation, he went into business for himself in 1831, making lathes and small tools.
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At the time the will was drawn Mr. Hohlbein mentioned to me how mentally alert she seemed for her age, knowing just what changes she wanted made and so forth ''.
At about the age of eighteen, he went to Athens to continue his education at Plato's Academy.
At the start of a new industrial age in the 18th century, it was believed that " people are the riches of the nation ", and there was a general faith in an economy that paid its workers low wages because high wages meant workers would work less.
While Miss Marple is described as ' an old lady ' in many of the stories, her age is mentioned in " At Bertram's Hotel ", where it is said she visited the hotel when she was 14 and almost 60 years have passed since then.
At the age of 30, in 1905, Schweitzer answered the call of " The Society of the Evangelist Missions of Paris " which was looking for a medical doctor.
At the age of 13, Mackenzie's father died, and he was forced to end his formal education in order to help support his family.
At the age of 16 he apprenticed as a stonemason and by the age of 20 he had reached journeyman status in this field.
At age six, young Bronson began his formal education in a one-room schoolhouse in the center of town but learned how to read at home with the help of his mother.
The school taught only reading, writing, and spelling and he left this school at the age of 10. At age 13, his uncle, Reverend Tillotson Bronson, invited Alcott into his home in Cheshire, Connecticut to be educated and prepared for college.
At age 17, Alcott passed the exam for a teaching certificate but had trouble finding work as a teacher.
At the age of eleven, he joined his father on a ship as an apprentice ; his seagoing career would be marked by headstrong disobedience.
At age 12 he was whiter than ivory, had hair lighter than gold, and could lift 10 bear skins at once.
At age 16 or 17, Johnson left his apprenticeship and ran away with his brother William.
At the age of 18, Johnson married 16-year-old Eliza McCardle in 1827 ; she was the daughter of a local shoemaker.
At the age of fourteen he entered the Camaldolese Order in the Monastery of St. Mary of the Angels in Florence, and rapidly became a leading theologian and Hellenist.
At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.
At the age of 13 he entered the Göttingen Gymnasium, residing at the home of one of the professors.
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At the age of 19 she left Haworth and worked as a governess between 1839 and 1845.
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At around the same time, nineteen officers of Galois ' former unit were arrested and charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government.
At the end of 1542, Marot became a refugee in Geneva and contributed nineteen more psalms.
At the age of thirteen, Lovelace became a " Gentlemen Wayter Extraordinary " to the King and at nineteen he contributed a verse to a volume of elegies commemorating Princess Katharine.
At the time, Ohio was a growing political power in the Union, with nineteen U. S. Representatives and two Senators.
At the age of nineteen, she explained to her parents that she could not be married as expected, but was devoting herself to religious studies and taking care of the sick and needy.
At age nineteen, David and his father left the Church of Scotland for a local Congregational church, influenced by preachers like Ralph Wardlaw who denied predestinatarian limitations on salvation.
At the age of nineteen, he entered a corps of the guards, serving in the campaigns of 1639 and 1640.
At the age of nineteen, Longchenpa entered the famous shedra ( monastic college ) Sangpu Neutok ( Wylie: gSang-phu Ne ' u-thog ), where he acquired great scholarly wisdom.
At the age of nineteen, Louis Philippe left France ; it was some twenty-one years before he again set foot on French soil.
At the time of this recording, Keaggy and Sferra were nineteen years old.
At least nineteen pioneer stations or settlements are believed to have been established in the area.
At 6: 45am CST on 19 March 1948, a tornado that originated in Alton, Illinois blew through Bunker Hill, destroying the majority of the town's buildings and killing nineteen people.
At nineteen he was a member of the national team for the Seoul Olympics, where they came fourth, the best result an Australian senior men's basketball team has achieved in Olympic competition.
At least nineteen generals had fallen on the final day and with the capture of Sevastopol the war was decided.
At the Council of Westminster that Richard convened in May 1175, nineteen canons were put forth, dealing with clerical marriage, the oversupply of ordained clergy, the behaviour of the clergy and their dress and tonsure, and simony.
At the age of nineteen, Garrick, who had been educated at Lichfield Grammar School, enrolled in Samuel Johnson's Edial Hall School.
At nineteen he entered the normal school, where he studied under Eugène Burnouf, Abel-Francois Villemain, and Victor Cousin.
At the age of nineteen, Landry was transferred to Sioux City, Iowa, where he trained as a co-pilot for flying a B-17 had begun.
At the age of nineteen, he was a professor of poetry at an esteemed art school in Beijing.
At the age of 15, she started reading her father ’ s work: a dream she had ' at the age of nineteen months ... in The Interpretation of Dreams, and commentators have noted how ' in the dream of little Anna ... little Anna only hallucinates forbidden objects '.
At nineteen, Corot was a " big child, shy and awkward.
At the age of nineteen Isaac was sent to the Academy of Geneva, where he read Greek under Francis Portus a Cretan.
At the time of events in Jonestown, Stephan and Tim were both nineteen and Jim Jones Jr. was eighteen.
At the age of nineteen he made his first speech at the bar, and shortly afterwards successfully defended Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, one of Rome's dependants in the East, who had been deprived of his throne by his brother.
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