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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 bio- grapher 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 bio- grapher of the Great Duke " haunted me like a passion .
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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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A cheap school in Chelsea was certainly a bad preparation for Eton , and want of money , combined with qualities which prevented him from ever becoming generally popular amongst his immediate companions , was likely enough to disincline ...
A cheap school in Chelsea was certainly a bad preparation for Eton , and want of money , combined with qualities which prevented him from ever becoming generally popular amongst his immediate companions , was likely enough to disincline ...
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The Mahratta chiefs having become temporarily quiet , Colonel Wellesley declared himself ready for service elsewhere . He was thereupon appointed by his brother , in an official communication which Mr. Gleig states to have been somewhat ...
The Mahratta chiefs having become temporarily quiet , Colonel Wellesley declared himself ready for service elsewhere . He was thereupon appointed by his brother , in an official communication which Mr. Gleig states to have been somewhat ...
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... the necessity of my employing some one or two of his Majesty's General Officers now in India . ' Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . with with some losses from the West Indian expedition - he The Personal Life of Wellington .
... the necessity of my employing some one or two of his Majesty's General Officers now in India . ' Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . with with some losses from the West Indian expedition - he The Personal Life of Wellington .
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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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