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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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... iron crown and Damien's bed of steel , ' but the condition of the galley - slave , the details of whose suffer- ings were out of sight and little known , excite in our minds a much less keen emotion . It conveys , indeed , a vague ...
... iron crown and Damien's bed of steel , ' but the condition of the galley - slave , the details of whose suffer- ings were out of sight and little known , excite in our minds a much less keen emotion . It conveys , indeed , a vague ...
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less than 1480 convicts , condemned to the galleys for adherence to the reformed faith during the period referred to . Almost every variety of age , class , and condition , is represented in these rolls . The youth of fifteen or sixteen ...
less than 1480 convicts , condemned to the galleys for adherence to the reformed faith during the period referred to . Almost every variety of age , class , and condition , is represented in these rolls . The youth of fifteen or sixteen ...
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The style of the narrative in its graphic simplicity reminds us of Defoe ; but the well - authenticated facts which it relates are more interesting than fiction , and the incidents not less strange . The pictures which Miss Ouvry has ...
The style of the narrative in its graphic simplicity reminds us of Defoe ; but the well - authenticated facts which it relates are more interesting than fiction , and the incidents not less strange . The pictures which Miss Ouvry has ...
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No less than twenty - two of these ruthless dragoons were quar- tered in the house of the Marteilhe family . The father was consigned to prison ; two sons and daughters , who were but children , were sent into a convent .
No less than twenty - two of these ruthless dragoons were quar- tered in the house of the Marteilhe family . The father was consigned to prison ; two sons and daughters , who were but children , were sent into a convent .
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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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