The Quarterly Review, Volume 5William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1811 - English literature |
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Page 32
... military glory , received a mortifying and ever- memorable check from the gallant population of Spain . All this we believe ; but , when we recollect the long , sanguinary , and de- solating wars , which his reign entailed on harassed ...
... military glory , received a mortifying and ever- memorable check from the gallant population of Spain . All this we believe ; but , when we recollect the long , sanguinary , and de- solating wars , which his reign entailed on harassed ...
Page 36
... of arms . His first military operation , on this occasion , was to possess himself of Marathon . Hither , says Hero- ら dotus , his partisans resorted out of the city 36 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
... of arms . His first military operation , on this occasion , was to possess himself of Marathon . Hither , says Hero- ら dotus , his partisans resorted out of the city 36 Clavier - Histoire des premiers Temps de la Grèce . FEB .
Page 62
... military genius of Buonaparte , and of the overwhelming strength of the military resources of France , as to look upon the British army ( the bravest and the finest undoubtedly in the world ) as fit only to wage a petty colo- nial war ...
... military genius of Buonaparte , and of the overwhelming strength of the military resources of France , as to look upon the British army ( the bravest and the finest undoubtedly in the world ) as fit only to wage a petty colo- nial war ...
Page 63
... military events of the last eighteen years , we are persuaded that by a manly and honest resistance , even the genius of Buonaparte may be foiled , and the spell of French invincibility dissolved . It is on these accounts that we view ...
... military events of the last eighteen years , we are persuaded that by a manly and honest resistance , even the genius of Buonaparte may be foiled , and the spell of French invincibility dissolved . It is on these accounts that we view ...
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... military sense , of such vast importance to the prosperity and strength of the Austrian em- pire ? Nothing which she can acquire on the side of Turkey or of Poland , can , as it strikes us , compensate , in point of feeling and in ...
... military sense , of such vast importance to the prosperity and strength of the Austrian em- pire ? Nothing which she can acquire on the side of Turkey or of Poland , can , as it strikes us , compensate , in point of feeling and in ...
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