The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William 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 John Murray, 1859 |
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... give a brief biographical notice of the Marquis . The pedigree of the Cornwallis family is easily carried back to the fourteenth century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier date . The ...
... give a brief biographical notice of the Marquis . The pedigree of the Cornwallis family is easily carried back to the fourteenth century , and there are traces of its existence amongst the landed gentry at a much earlier date . The ...
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... give him a more effective and timely support . The result is well known . His Lordship's first campaign , comprising the autumn and winter months of 1786 , was successful . He gained what the English Secretary of War describes as ' the ...
... give him a more effective and timely support . The result is well known . His Lordship's first campaign , comprising the autumn and winter months of 1786 , was successful . He gained what the English Secretary of War describes as ' the ...
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... give up half of the income of my estate , I would cheer- fully have complied , and gloried in the sacrifice . I have now , Sir , only to say that I still admire your character - that I have still hopes that your abilities and integrity ...
... give up half of the income of my estate , I would cheer- fully have complied , and gloried in the sacrifice . I have now , Sir , only to say that I still admire your character - that I have still hopes that your abilities and integrity ...
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... gives a curious description of the manoeuvres of the troops which , under Frede- rick's handling , had frequently outmanoeuvred , as well as beaten in the field , an overwhelming superiority of the best troops in Europe : - ' My ...
... gives a curious description of the manoeuvres of the troops which , under Frede- rick's handling , had frequently outmanoeuvred , as well as beaten in the field , an overwhelming superiority of the best troops in Europe : - ' My ...
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... Give me back , give me back , the wild freshness of morning ' after a late division , would be the cry of many a veteran statesman , who , very much against his will , has been left at full liberty to enjoy the beauties of nature in ...
... Give me back , give me back , the wild freshness of morning ' after a late division , would be the cry of many a veteran statesman , who , very much against his will , has been left at full liberty to enjoy the beauties of nature in ...
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