The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 |
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Page 6
... Duke with his tenacious memory could have forgotten them . It is impossible to conceive that one so rigidly adherent to the truth , in small matters as well as in great , would , in this solitary instance , have stepped aside from it ...
... Duke with his tenacious memory could have forgotten them . It is impossible to conceive that one so rigidly adherent to the truth , in small matters as well as in great , would , in this solitary instance , have stepped aside from it ...
Page 7
... Duke's life differ from one another , and cannot , therefore , all be correct ; but that which we have given above is as faithful a summary as we can offer of that which is known of his early youth . Dissenting materially in some points ...
... Duke's life differ from one another , and cannot , therefore , all be correct ; but that which we have given above is as faithful a summary as we can offer of that which is known of his early youth . Dissenting materially in some points ...
Page 8
... Duke used to say long years afterwards . ' If we happened to be at dinner and the wine was going round , it was considered wrong to interrupt us . I have seen a packet handed in from the Austrian head - quarters , and thrown aside ...
... Duke used to say long years afterwards . ' If we happened to be at dinner and the wine was going round , it was considered wrong to interrupt us . I have seen a packet handed in from the Austrian head - quarters , and thrown aside ...
Page 13
... Duke's biography , in short , too exclusively from portions of his own letters , without paying sufficient attention to contemporary evidence or observing entire impartiality in regard to the merits of others . The expressions in the ...
... Duke's biography , in short , too exclusively from portions of his own letters , without paying sufficient attention to contemporary evidence or observing entire impartiality in regard to the merits of others . The expressions in the ...
Page 18
... Duke has properly added in a note at page 246 of the first volume of the Supplemental Despatches . ' ' My dear ... Duke's generosity was , as is well known , conspicuously displayed in his protection of the son of Dhoondiah Waugh , the ...
... Duke has properly added in a note at page 246 of the first volume of the Supplemental Despatches . ' ' My dear ... Duke's generosity was , as is well known , conspicuously displayed in his protection of the son of Dhoondiah Waugh , the ...
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