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... the ' not less wild praise ' of ' most of the English writers ' - Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added con- siderably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken the above quotation .
... the ' not less wild praise ' of ' most of the English writers ' - Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added con- siderably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken the above quotation .
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Mr. Gleig says ' she seems to have taken it into her head that he was the dunce of the family , and to have treated him harshly , if not with marked neglect . ' He was sent , being very young , ' though we are not told at what age ...
Mr. Gleig says ' she seems to have taken it into her head that he was the dunce of the family , and to have treated him harshly , if not with marked neglect . ' He was sent , being very young , ' though we are not told at what age ...
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By and by the party broke up , when the other officers present were taken home by their lady friends , while young Wesley was by common consent left to travel with the fiddlers . Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind ...
By and by the party broke up , when the other officers present were taken home by their lady friends , while young Wesley was by common consent left to travel with the fiddlers . Old Lady Aldborough on one occasion put the Duke in mind ...
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The later state- ment must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some ex- planation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up ...
The later state- ment must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some ex- planation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up ...
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... and the position was taken as he had predicted " as a matter of course , " and without the loss of a man ! Thus , in this little affair - the first of the details of which we have any record - the only one in the whole course of his ...
... and the position was taken as he had predicted " as a matter of course , " and without the loss of a man ! Thus , in this little affair - the first of the details of which we have any record - the only one in the whole course of his ...
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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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