Charles Dodgson (bishop) quoted in Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 5
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If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.
— Charles Dodgson (bishop) on Cold
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About Charles Dodgson (bishop)
Charles Dodgson DD (1721/1722 – 21 January 1795) was bishop, first of Ossory and then of Elphin (both in Ireland). He was the grandfather of Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) and the great-grandfather of Lewis Carroll.
About Charles Dodgson (bishop)
Charles Dodgson DD (1721/1722 – 21 January 1795) was bishop, first of Ossory and then of Elphin (both in Ireland). He was the grandfather of Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) and the great-grandfather of Lewis Carroll.
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