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We regret that this should have been thought necessary ; for although fuller information has enabled Mr. Gleig to enrich his biography with a great deal of matter which is not to be found in Brialmont , yet it is to be remembered that ...
We regret that this should have been thought necessary ; for although fuller information has enabled Mr. Gleig to enrich his biography with a great deal of matter which is not to be found in Brialmont , yet it is to be remembered that ...
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The later state- ment must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some ex- planation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up ...
The later state- ment must , of course , be taken to represent Mr. Gleig's mature judgment in the matter ; but one naturally looks for some ex- planation of the discrepancy between these two statements . And it would be well to clear up ...
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But there the matter ended . ' † 27th February , 1799 , ' Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . i . p . 199. We have made our quotations from the Despatches themselves , as Mr. Gleig is not always perfectly accurate .
But there the matter ended . ' † 27th February , 1799 , ' Supplementary Despatches , ' vol . i . p . 199. We have made our quotations from the Despatches themselves , as Mr. Gleig is not always perfectly accurate .
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Upon looking at the tope as I came in just now , it appeared to me that when you get possession of the bank of the Nullah , you have the tope as a matter of course , as the latter is in the rear of the former .
Upon looking at the tope as I came in just now , it appeared to me that when you get possession of the bank of the Nullah , you have the tope as a matter of course , as the latter is in the rear of the former .
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The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
The failure was , as it turned out , a trifling matter ; and no more would probably have been heard of it if it had happened to any one else ; but it afforded to our great soldier a lesson of the difficulties attendant upon such ...
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| Pealkiri | The Quarterly Review, 120. köide |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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