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Having been unable to obtain , for want of pecuniary means , the hand of the Lady Catherine Pakenham , he volunteered on the earliest opportunity , as young officers are accustomed to do under such circumstances , for active service .
Having been unable to obtain , for want of pecuniary means , the hand of the Lady Catherine Pakenham , he volunteered on the earliest opportunity , as young officers are accustomed to do under such circumstances , for active service .
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Colonel Gurwood says , on the other hand , at vol . i . pp . 12 , 13 .— ' When General Harris joined the army to take command , after receiving the reports of the heads of corps and departments , he was so pleased with all Colonel ...
Colonel Gurwood says , on the other hand , at vol . i . pp . 12 , 13 .— ' When General Harris joined the army to take command , after receiving the reports of the heads of corps and departments , he was so pleased with all Colonel ...
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He complains , on the one hand , of the General under whom he is serving for appropriating the credit which he claims for himself ; and he expresses apprehensions , her hand , in regard to the same General's ' want of respectability ...
He complains , on the one hand , of the General under whom he is serving for appropriating the credit which he claims for himself ; and he expresses apprehensions , her hand , in regard to the same General's ' want of respectability ...
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It was written with his own hand on both sides of a slip of paper , and sealed up in a quill , in order that it might be the better concealed in the journey through Tippoo's country . It was unimportant in other respects , but contained ...
It was written with his own hand on both sides of a slip of paper , and sealed up in a quill , in order that it might be the better concealed in the journey through Tippoo's country . It was unimportant in other respects , but contained ...
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But it must be remembered , on the other hand , that he had not at that time acquired the high reputation which his subsequent services * in India earned for him . If Lord Mornington f had sent him as a Colonel in command of so ...
But it must be remembered , on the other hand , that he had not at that time acquired the high reputation which his subsequent services * in India earned for him . If Lord Mornington f had sent him as a Colonel in command of so ...
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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 IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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