The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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... seems at all events to be no reason to disbelieve that Arthur Wesley's birth occurred in one of the three months referred to of the year which also ushered Napoleon Buonaparte into the world - 1769 . It hardly matters which , as between ...
... seems at all events to be no reason to disbelieve that Arthur Wesley's birth occurred in one of the three months referred to of the year which also ushered Napoleon Buonaparte into the world - 1769 . It hardly matters which , as between ...
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... seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near twelve Colonel Wellesley came to my tent , in a good deal of agitation , to say he had not carried the tope . It proved that the 33rd ...
... seems here to ignore the following extract from General Harris's most conscientious diary ; Near twelve Colonel Wellesley came to my tent , in a good deal of agitation , to say he had not carried the tope . It proved that the 33rd ...
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... seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both its flanks , the enemy retreated , and the ...
... seems to have expected ; and next morning the very plan suggested in his letter of the day before was adopted— according to which , Colonel Wellesley turned the tope by a movement on both its flanks , the enemy retreated , and the ...
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... seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned out , a ...
... seems by no means impossible from that letter that notwithstanding the note to Lord Harris , Colonel Wellesley was left without any sufficiently precise indication of what was expected of him . The failure was , as it turned out , a ...
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... seem to feel your situation so sensibly that nothing I can say will afford you any consolation , and I fear that the present state of your mind may be of material injury to your health . ' exposed • exposed to a heavy fire of musketry ...
... seem to feel your situation so sensibly that nothing I can say will afford you any consolation , and I fear that the present state of your mind may be of material injury to your health . ' exposed • exposed to a heavy fire of musketry ...
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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, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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