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The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
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I am in no want of money , and probably 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 ...
I am in no want of money , and probably 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 ...
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But in direct continuation of the conversation- extract above quoted , Mr. Gleig remarks to him : The rivers must have puzzled you at times , for you probably did not carry pontoons with you ; ' and he makes the poor Duke reply : - " No ...
But in direct continuation of the conversation- extract above quoted , Mr. Gleig remarks to him : The rivers must have puzzled you at times , for you probably did not carry pontoons with you ; ' and he makes the poor Duke reply : - " No ...
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... whether by release or death . One of the most complete of these lists , that of M. M. Haag , gives a total - probably below the truth — of no less less than 1480 convicts , condemned to the galleys for 40 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
... whether by release or death . One of the most complete of these lists , that of M. M. Haag , gives a total - probably below the truth — of no less less than 1480 convicts , condemned to the galleys for 40 The Hugonots at the Galleys .
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The labour of a galley slave , ' has become proverbial , and not without reason ; but probably very few of those who use the illustration realise its force . It is observed by the writer of this narrative that by stress of torture men ...
The labour of a galley slave , ' has become proverbial , and not without reason ; but probably very few of those who use the illustration realise its force . It is observed by the writer of this narrative that by stress of torture men ...
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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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