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... as well as a scholar and a divineMr . Gleig might be expected to produce a
model work , worthy of imitation by all future chroniclers . And his heart was
surely in his task : for had he not previously written , “ There was a time when the
thought ...
... as well as a scholar and a divineMr . Gleig might be expected to produce a
model work , worthy of imitation by all future chroniclers . And his heart was
surely in his task : for had he not previously written , “ There was a time when the
thought ...
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We regret that this should have been thought necessary ; for although fuller
information has enabled Mr. Gleig to enrich his biography with a great deal of
matter which is not to be found in Brialmont , yet it is to be remembered that his
works ...
We regret that this should have been thought necessary ; for although fuller
information has enabled Mr. Gleig to enrich his biography with a great deal of
matter which is not to be found in Brialmont , yet it is to be remembered that his
works ...
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We have thought this worthy of notice , as being more elegant than the somewhat
similar • Take care of Dowb , ' which so puzzled our General commanding in the
Crimea . Even then the situation was , however , extremely urgent . Immediate ...
We have thought this worthy of notice , as being more elegant than the somewhat
similar • Take care of Dowb , ' which so puzzled our General commanding in the
Crimea . Even then the situation was , however , extremely urgent . Immediate ...
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... great gallantry the fortress in which he had previously suffered a lengthened
and cruel imprisonment ; and he found himself once more , and permanently ,
superseded by a junior officer , in a command which he thought he had fairly won
.
... great gallantry the fortress in which he had previously suffered a lengthened
and cruel imprisonment ; and he found himself once more , and permanently ,
superseded by a junior officer , in a command which he thought he had fairly won
.
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Sail or sell , ” said the Duke to the subaltern . A European career for me , ' said
Arthur Wellesley to himself , and to Malcolm , when he thought he had been long
enough in India . On the 4th of February , 1805 , Malcolm writes much in the
same ...
Sail or sell , ” said the Duke to the subaltern . A European career for me , ' said
Arthur Wellesley to himself , and to Malcolm , when he thought he had been long
enough in India . On the 4th of February , 1805 , Malcolm writes much in the
same ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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