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Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind of the circumstance , after he had become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , " we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now .
Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind of the circumstance , after he had become a great man , at which he laughed heartily , while she added with naïveté , " we should not leave you to go home with the fiddlers now .
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He there received , again , as it were , in adversity , the most valuable lessons that could be afforded to a young soldier of an observant mind , for he saw everything that was vicious in an army . His first military opera- tion ...
He there received , again , as it were , in adversity , the most valuable lessons that could be afforded to a young soldier of an observant mind , for he saw everything that was vicious in an army . His first military opera- tion ...
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But he is far from supposing that wherever he served his mind would not have awakened sooner or later from the half - lethargic state in which throughout his earlier years it may be said to have lain . ' And he states that ' from the ...
But he is far from supposing that wherever he served his mind would not have awakened sooner or later from the half - lethargic state in which throughout his earlier years it may be said to have lain . ' And he states that ' from the ...
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... his share of prize - money , enabled him to repay to his brother the price of his promotion and made him independent . Mr. Gleig adds , ' this was a great weight taken from his mind ; ' but on referring to Colonel Wellesley's letter ...
... his share of prize - money , enabled him to repay to his brother the price of his promotion and made him independent . Mr. Gleig adds , ' this was a great weight taken from his mind ; ' but on referring to Colonel Wellesley's letter ...
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Having , however , spoken out his mind on the subject , Colonel Wellesley corresponded cordially with General Baird , and was pre- paring to precede him to the Red Sea when he was struck ...
Having , however , spoken out his mind on the subject , Colonel Wellesley corresponded cordially with General Baird , and was pre- paring to precede him to the Red Sea when he was struck ...
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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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