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Page 13
... from 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
anticipated ...
... from 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
anticipated ...
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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 , from the ...
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 , from the ...
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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 , following upon ...
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 , following upon ...
Page 45
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 little rotten ...
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 little rotten ...
Page 74
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 in a
forge ...
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 in a
forge ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Sir John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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