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... 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 of
becoming ...
... 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 of
becoming ...
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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 naiveté , “ 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 naiveté , “ 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 ...
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 ...
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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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... attempt will require so large a force as to occasion the necessity of my
employing some one or two of his Majesty ' s General Officers now in India . ' +
Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . column with The Personal Life of
Wellington .
... attempt will require so large a force as to occasion the necessity of my
employing some one or two of his Majesty ' s General Officers now in India . ' +
Who had now become Marquess Wellesley . column with 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, 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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