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... and the ' not less wild praise ' of most of the English writers ' — Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added considerably to the text , and wrote a translator's preface to it , from which we have taken the above quotation .
... and the ' not less wild praise ' of most of the English writers ' — Mr . Gleig translated it from the French , added considerably 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 , to a ...
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 , to a ...
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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 statement must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some explanation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up at ...
The later statement must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some explanation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up at ...
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... 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 long service ...
... 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 long service ...
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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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