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By and by the party broke up , when the other officers present were taken home by their lady friends , while young Wesley was by common consent left to travel with the fiddlers . Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind ...
By and by the party broke up , when the other officers present were taken home by their lady friends , while young Wesley was by common consent left to travel with the fiddlers . Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind ...
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I declare that I can't think of the whole business with common patience . ' And he says further , — ' Lord Mornington , conscious that he had acted somewhat unfairly , proposed to reinstate him in his command at Mysore .
I declare that I can't think of the whole business with common patience . ' And he says further , — ' Lord Mornington , conscious that he had acted somewhat unfairly , proposed to reinstate him in his command at Mysore .
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In all that band of heroes , who , in various countries and periods , have given their lives for their religion , we find a common type . Minor differences of race and character are merged in the assimilating element of a victorious ...
In all that band of heroes , who , in various countries and periods , have given their lives for their religion , we find a common type . Minor differences of race and character are merged in the assimilating element of a victorious ...
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Twenty or thirty lashes were a common punishment , but as many as fifty , eighty , or even a hundred were occasionally given ; such inflic- tions as these were generally fatal , but who heeded the death of a galley slave ?
Twenty or thirty lashes were a common punishment , but as many as fifty , eighty , or even a hundred were occasionally given ; such inflic- tions as these were generally fatal , but who heeded the death of a galley slave ?
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No one knows when any of the common metals were discovered . Antiquarians may form theories as to the supposed Stone , Bronze , and Iron Ages ; but such theories are , at best , only conjectures more or less ingenious .
No one knows when any of the common metals were discovered . Antiquarians may form theories as to the supposed Stone , Bronze , and Iron Ages ; but such theories are , at best , only conjectures more or less ingenious .
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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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