The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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Page 6
... never got into debt . " . It is not , therefore , very pro- bable , had the Dublin stories been authentic , that the Duke with his tenacious memory could have forgotten them . It is impossible to conceive that one so rigidly adherent to ...
... never got into debt . " . It is not , therefore , very pro- bable , had the Dublin stories been authentic , that the Duke with his tenacious memory could have forgotten them . It is impossible to conceive that one so rigidly adherent to ...
Page 14
... Never was superstructure of romance built up on so narrow a foundation . ' Other writers have exaggerated this reverse , but Mr. Gleig seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near ...
... Never was superstructure of romance built up on so narrow a foundation . ' Other writers have exaggerated this reverse , but Mr. Gleig seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near ...
Page 17
... never recommended my brother to you , and of course never suggested how , or where he should be employed ; and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing him in any situation in which his appointment could ...
... never recommended my brother to you , and of course never suggested how , or where he should be employed ; and I believe you know also , that you would not have pleased me by placing him in any situation in which his appointment could ...
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... never shall be when I am , it will be time enough to call upon you . ' The Duke's generosity was , as is well known , conspicuously displayed in his protection of the son of Dhoondiah Waugh , the ' King of the World . ' He had with ...
... never shall be when I am , it will be time enough to call upon you . ' The Duke's generosity was , as is well known , conspicuously displayed in his protection of the son of Dhoondiah Waugh , the ' King of the World . ' He had with ...
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... never so much inclined to think himself wrong as when he differed from Sir John Malcolm , ' is still remembered in the Malcolm family ; and he expressed his own opinion of their respective characters , in one sense , when he said , in ...
... never so much inclined to think himself wrong as when he differed from Sir John Malcolm , ' is still remembered in the Malcolm family ; and he expressed his own opinion of their respective characters , in one sense , when he said , in ...
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