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Nevertheless , the Duke showed perhaps a right feeling in accepting the ' persistent ' assertions of his mother and keeping his own anniversary on the latter day , which was also adopted in Gurwood's précis ; and there seems at all ...
Nevertheless , the Duke showed perhaps a right feeling in accepting the ' persistent ' assertions of his mother and keeping his own anniversary on the latter day , which was also adopted in Gurwood's précis ; and there seems at all ...
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Never was Other writers have exaggerated this reverse , but Mr. Gleig seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near twelve Colonel Wellesley came to my tent , in a good deal of ...
Never was Other writers have exaggerated this reverse , but Mr. Gleig seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near twelve Colonel Wellesley came to my tent , in a good deal of ...
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... -that attack failed , as Colonel Wellesley seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both ...
... -that attack failed , as Colonel Wellesley seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both ...
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Indeed , it seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned ...
Indeed , it seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned ...
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... and became * On this occasion his brother Henry wrote to him , April 22 , 1801- I am really very much distressed by your letter of the 21st , because you seem to feel your situation so sensibly that nothing I can say will afford you ...
... and became * On this occasion his brother Henry wrote to him , April 22 , 1801- I am really very much distressed by your letter of the 21st , because you seem to feel your situation so sensibly that nothing I can say will afford you ...
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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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