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In a letter which I wrote to you , I believe in the month of March , I pressed you to look to the government of this country , and you may easily conceive that I am glad to find that there is so near a prospect of my ...
In a letter which I wrote to you , I believe in the month of March , I pressed you to look to the government of this country , and you may easily conceive that I am glad to find that there is so near a prospect of my ...
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In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaun- pettah Tope before Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says : - ' It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime , with writers to The Colonel was represented as make a great deal of ...
In regard to the celebrated night - attack on the Sultaun- pettah Tope before Seringapatam , Mr. Gleig says : - ' It was at one time , I believe , a favourite pastime , with writers to The Colonel was represented as make a great deal of ...
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... of course never suggested how , or where he should be employed ; and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing him in any situation in which his appointment could be injurious to the public service .
... of course never suggested how , or where he should be employed ; and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing him in any situation in which his appointment could be injurious to the public service .
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I should be ashamed of doing any of the dirty things that I am told are done in some of the commands in the Carnatic as I believe I proved sufficiently at Wallajah - Nuggur : but if Government do not consider my situation here , I must ...
I should be ashamed of doing any of the dirty things that I am told are done in some of the commands in the Carnatic as I believe I proved sufficiently at Wallajah - Nuggur : but if Government do not consider my situation here , I must ...
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Rafts resting on inflated skins have been employed in the East time out of mind , —indeed there is reason to believe that they were used by the Sikhs in their latest struggle with the British army , -and Sir Howard Douglas tells us in ...
Rafts resting on inflated skins have been employed in the East time out of mind , —indeed there is reason to believe that they were used by the Sikhs in their latest struggle with the British army , -and Sir Howard Douglas tells us in ...
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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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