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... either represents the other actors in the scenes which he describes as inactive , or places them in situations little short of ridiculous . He writes the Duke's biography , in short , too exclusively from portions of his own letters ...
... either represents the other actors in the scenes which he describes as inactive , or places them in situations little short of ridiculous . He writes the Duke's biography , in short , too exclusively from portions of his own letters ...
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... 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 , from the Duke's lips ; but the effect ...
... 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 , from the Duke's lips ; but the effect ...
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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 , savs 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 , savs 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 IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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