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He tells us in that preface that the book of M. Brialmont is exe- cuted in more than its military details with singular ability , ' and that M. Brialmont writes of the Duke of Wellington as if the public and private character of that ...
He tells us in that preface that the book of M. Brialmont is exe- cuted in more than its military details with singular ability , ' and that M. Brialmont writes of the Duke of Wellington as if the public and private character of that ...
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... great a change of character . Could the young officer ' have emerged from hobble- * * We find in a note by the present Duke , at p . 52 of the Supplementary Despatches , ' that Lord Mornington's family adopted the ancient spelling ...
... great a change of character . Could the young officer ' have emerged from hobble- * * We find in a note by the present Duke , at p . 52 of the Supplementary Despatches , ' that Lord Mornington's family adopted the ancient spelling ...
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... was likely enough to disincline him to mix with his fellows as he otherwise might have done , while the habits of reserve and solitude in which he indulged , must have contributed still further to the formation of his character .
... was likely enough to disincline him to mix with his fellows as he otherwise might have done , while the habits of reserve and solitude in which he indulged , must have contributed still further to the formation of his character .
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... showing what Colonel Wellesley anticipated , might , without further explana- tions , injuriously affect the reputation of General Harris , whose unpresuming but fearless and honest character has been most unjustly assailed .
... showing what Colonel Wellesley anticipated , might , without further explana- tions , injuriously affect the reputation of General Harris , whose unpresuming but fearless and honest character has been most unjustly assailed .
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But in studying the Duke's real character and motives we gain more from private letters than from either despatches or reports - always more or less doubtful - of conversations . Of those with whom he corresponded when in India there ...
But in studying the Duke's real character and motives we gain more from private letters than from either despatches or reports - always more or less doubtful - of conversations . Of those with whom he corresponded when in India 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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