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... portions of his own letters , without paying sufficient attention to contemporary evidence or observing entire impartiality in regard to the merits of others . The expressions in the above letters , showing what Colonel Wellesley ...
... portions of his own letters , without paying sufficient attention to contemporary evidence or observing entire impartiality in regard to the merits of others . The expressions in the above letters , showing what Colonel Wellesley ...
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We pursued them as long as daylight lasted , and the exhausted state of the men and horses would allow , and slept on the field . " " Mr. Gleig intersperses his work with many portions of conversations , or descriptions , or opinions ...
We pursued them as long as daylight lasted , and the exhausted state of the men and horses would allow , and slept on the field . " " Mr. Gleig intersperses his work with many portions of conversations , or descriptions , or opinions ...
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We have italicized certain portions of this somewhat long extract , which is taken from the same letter as we quoted above , in order to point out how different were General Wellesley's real feelings from those which Mr. Gleig ...
We have italicized certain portions of this somewhat long extract , which is taken from the same letter as we quoted above , in order to point out how different were General Wellesley's real feelings from those which Mr. Gleig ...
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For many weeks they lay in this dungeon , their only food being a portion of bread per day , so insufficient as to reduce them almost to starvation . We became so weak and emaciated , " says Marteilhe , ' that it was well for us that a ...
For many weeks they lay in this dungeon , their only food being a portion of bread per day , so insufficient as to reduce them almost to starvation . We became so weak and emaciated , " says Marteilhe , ' that it was well for us that a ...
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The mass was sonorous , and when any portion was broken off the fracture exhibited a granulated appearace , like broken steel . This iron , or rather steel , ' says Park , ' is formed into various instruments by being repeatedly heated ...
The mass was sonorous , and when any portion was broken off the fracture exhibited a granulated appearace , like broken steel . This iron , or rather steel , ' says Park , ' is formed into various instruments by being repeatedly heated ...
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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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