The Quarterly Review, Volume 219William 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, 1913 - English literature |
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... less than ten years after the last shots had been fired at Toulouse and Bayonne , William Napier's great ' History of the War in the Peninsula ' was immediately and naturally accepted as the standard authority on that great struggle ...
... less than ten years after the last shots had been fired at Toulouse and Bayonne , William Napier's great ' History of the War in the Peninsula ' was immediately and naturally accepted as the standard authority on that great struggle ...
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... less important . Yet , despite all this wealth of new material , the 19th century had closed before any real attempt was made to revise the received version of events . Napier's great reputation would hardly be in itself a sufficient ...
... less important . Yet , despite all this wealth of new material , the 19th century had closed before any real attempt was made to revise the received version of events . Napier's great reputation would hardly be in itself a sufficient ...
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... less welcome and valuable ; indeed , one turns to his narrative of the Douro and the Coa all the more eagerly to see how far his conclusions agree with those of Prof. Oman . With a good deal less space at his disposal - he has about 430 ...
... less welcome and valuable ; indeed , one turns to his narrative of the Douro and the Coa all the more eagerly to see how far his conclusions agree with those of Prof. Oman . With a good deal less space at his disposal - he has about 430 ...
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... less advance into Portugal . It was only because starvation drove Wellington back from Mirabete to Badajoz that the Talavera campaign proved comparatively barren . If I could only have fed , ' wrote Wellington , ' I could , after some ...
... less advance into Portugal . It was only because starvation drove Wellington back from Mirabete to Badajoz that the Talavera campaign proved comparatively barren . If I could only have fed , ' wrote Wellington , ' I could , after some ...
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... less than libellous misrepresentations of Napier and other political adversaries . Prof. Oman , though less enthusiastic about the Ministry , nevertheless defends them vigorously . He represents them as leaning on Wellington for ...
... less than libellous misrepresentations of Napier and other political adversaries . Prof. Oman , though less enthusiastic about the Ministry , nevertheless defends them vigorously . He represents them as leaning on Wellington for ...
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