The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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And his heart was surely in his task : for had he not previously written , “ There was a time when the thought of becoming , sooner or later , the biographer of the Great Duke “ haunted me like a passion .
And his heart was surely in his task : for had he not previously written , “ There was a time when the thought of becoming , sooner or later , the biographer of the Great Duke “ haunted me like a passion .
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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 ...
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 ...
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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 .
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 .
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... 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he had previously suffered a lengthened and cruel imprisonment ; and he found himself once more , and permanently , superseded by a junior officer , in a command which he thought he had fairly won .
... 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he had previously suffered a lengthened and cruel imprisonment ; and he found himself once more , and permanently , superseded by a junior officer , in a command which he thought he had fairly won .
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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 strain to Major ...
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 strain to Major ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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