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Mr. Gleig says ' she seems to have taken it into her head that he was the dunce of the family , and to have treated him harshly , if not with marked neglect . ' He was sent , being very young , ' though we are not told at what age ...
Mr. Gleig says ' she seems to have taken it into her head that he was the dunce of the family , and to have treated him harshly , if not with marked neglect . ' He was sent , being very young , ' though we are not told at what age ...
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to the excess of his expenditure over his income , and he fre- quently expresses much distress on this head . The various versions of the Duke's life differ from one another , and cannot , therefore , all be correct ; but that which we ...
to the excess of his expenditure over his income , and he fre- quently expresses much distress on this head . The various versions of the Duke's life differ from one another , and cannot , therefore , all be correct ; but that which we ...
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I have seen a packet handed in from the Austrian head - quarters , and thrown aside unopened , with a remark , That will keep till to - morrow morning . It has always been a marvel to me how any one of us escaped .
I have seen a packet handed in from the Austrian head - quarters , and thrown aside unopened , with a remark , That will keep till to - morrow morning . It has always been a marvel to me how any one of us escaped .
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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 Wellesley's arrangements that he conceived it to be an imperative duty to ...
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 Wellesley's arrangements that he conceived it to be an imperative duty to ...
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It was impossible to make him too respectable , or to hold him too high , if he was to be placed at the head of the army in the field . This want of respectability , which is to be attri- buted in a great measure to the General himself ...
It was impossible to make him too respectable , or to hold him too high , if he was to be placed at the head of the army in the field . This want of respectability , which is to be attri- buted in a great measure to the General himself ...
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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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