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... In one of the numerous visits which the Duke of Wellington necessarily paid to Calais , on his way from France to England , during the continuance of the Army of Occupation in France , while walking from the Hotel Dessin to the pier ...
... In one of the numerous visits which the Duke of Wellington necessarily paid to Calais , on his way from France to England , during the continuance of the Army of Occupation in France , while walking from the Hotel Dessin to the pier ...
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And subsequently , as we shall see , he fretted so much to return to England and embark in a European in place of an Indian career , that his bodily health became seriously affected , though his vigour returned to him almost as soon as ...
And subsequently , as we shall see , he fretted so much to return to England and embark in a European in place of an Indian career , that his bodily health became seriously affected , though his vigour returned to him almost as soon as ...
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... like Alexander for more worlds to conquer , began at all events to think seriously of something beyond an Indian career ; ' and he advised Lord Mornington , who had been receiving disagreeable despatches from England , to resign .
... like Alexander for more worlds to conquer , began at all events to think seriously of something beyond an Indian career ; ' and he advised Lord Mornington , who had been receiving disagreeable despatches from England , to resign .
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... which , if I had been permitted , I should have settled long ago ; or any reason for which I should involve myself in fresh troubles and difficulties , with which I have hitherto had no concern . I look to England ...
... which , if I had been permitted , I should have settled long ago ; or any reason for which I should involve myself in fresh troubles and difficulties , with which I have hitherto had no concern . I look to England ...
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I don't think it probable that I shall be called upon to go to India ; the fact is , that men in power in England think very little of that country ; and those who do think of it , feel very little inclination that I should go there .
I don't think it probable that I shall be called upon to go to India ; the fact is , that men in power in England think very little of that country ; and those who do think of it , feel very little inclination that I should go there .
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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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