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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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We are , however , more inclined to think that there must have been some misapprehension on Mr. Gleig's part as to time , place , or circumstance - in short , as to what the Duke really did say and mean - than that the circumstantial ...
We are , however , more inclined to think that there must have been some misapprehension on Mr. Gleig's part as to time , place , or circumstance - in short , as to what the Duke really did say and mean - than that the circumstantial ...
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... means ; of obtaining credit for his ability , integrity , and sound judgment ; or of employing interest in high quarters . He persuaded his brother to accept , to their mutual advantage , the post of Governor - General , which had ...
... means ; of obtaining credit for his ability , integrity , and sound judgment ; or of employing interest in high quarters . He persuaded his brother to accept , to their mutual advantage , the post of Governor - General , which had ...
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I do not know where you mean the post to be established , and I shall therefore be obliged to you if you will do me the favour to meet me this afternoon in front of the lines , and show it to me . In the mean time I will order my ...
I do not know where you mean the post to be established , and I shall therefore be obliged to you if you will do me the favour to meet me this afternoon in front of the lines , and show it to me . In the mean time I will order my ...
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Indeed , it seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned ...
Indeed , it seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned ...
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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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