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The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington . By G. R. Gleig , M.A. , F.R.G.S. , & c . & c . , Chaplain - General of the Forces and Prebendary of St. Paul's . The People's Edition . 1864 II . - 1 . Les Forçats pour la Foi .
The Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington . By G. R. Gleig , M.A. , F.R.G.S. , & c . & c . , Chaplain - General of the Forces and Prebendary of St. Paul's . The People's Edition . 1864 II . - 1 . Les Forçats pour la Foi .
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A GOOD personal life of Wellington , ' painting the Duke himself exactly as he was , ' appearing as the People's edition ... with sources of observation and information superior to those enjoyed by the majority of the Duke's biographers ...
A GOOD personal life of Wellington , ' painting the Duke himself exactly as he was , ' appearing as the People's edition ... with sources of observation and information superior to those enjoyed by the majority of the Duke's biographers ...
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In the mean time we must tender our cordial thanks to the present Duke of Wellington for the costly and noble ... The Duke's life naturally divides itself into three periods : the first , from his birth to his obtaining command of the ...
In the mean time we must tender our cordial thanks to the present Duke of Wellington for the costly and noble ... The Duke's life naturally divides itself into three periods : the first , from his birth to his obtaining command of the ...
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Nevertheless , the Duke showed perhaps a right feeling in accepting the ' persistent ' assertions of his mother and keeping his own anniversary on the latter day , which was also adopted in Gurwood's précis ; and there seems at all ...
Nevertheless , the Duke showed perhaps a right feeling in accepting the ' persistent ' assertions of his mother and keeping his own anniversary on the latter day , which was also adopted in Gurwood's précis ; and there seems at all ...
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Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind of the circumstance , after he had become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , " we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now .
Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind of the circumstance , after he had become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , " we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now .
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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, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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