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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... never flagged , and his promotion proceeded at the rate that might have been anticipated from his merits and his rank . He was made aide - de - camp to the King in 1765 , colonel of the 33rd regiment in 1766 , major - general in Sept ...
... never flagged , and his promotion proceeded at the rate that might have been anticipated from his merits and his rank . He was made aide - de - camp to the King in 1765 , colonel of the 33rd regiment in 1766 , major - general in Sept ...
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... never been mentioned by me to any mortal . A trait which I heard of a Highlander struck me exceedingly . Macpherson offered to take him by the hand , which the other declined , telling him in the height of his power as Governor ...
... never been mentioned by me to any mortal . A trait which I heard of a Highlander struck me exceedingly . Macpherson offered to take him by the hand , which the other declined , telling him in the height of his power as Governor ...
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... never suffered my private feelings to get the better of the great duty which I owe to the public , and that my conscience does not reproach me with a single act of improper or impolitic lenity . ' The best proof that he held an upright ...
... never suffered my private feelings to get the better of the great duty which I owe to the public , and that my conscience does not reproach me with a single act of improper or impolitic lenity . ' The best proof that he held an upright ...
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... never be left unlocked until a bishop was burnt in one of them . Nor does either of these representatives of Irish feelings and opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of ...
... never be left unlocked until a bishop was burnt in one of them . Nor does either of these representatives of Irish feelings and opinion seem to know that their fighting scheme is neither more nor less than a modified version of ...
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... never to give up the undoubted birthright of Irishmen , an Independent Parliament ; and he was on the verge of success when one of the 111 , Mr. W. C. Fortescue , objected to such a pledge , and carried with him three or four others of ...
... never to give up the undoubted birthright of Irishmen , an Independent Parliament ; and he was on the verge of success when one of the 111 , Mr. W. C. Fortescue , objected to such a pledge , and carried with him three or four others of ...
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