The Quarterly Review, Τόμος 120William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1866 |
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... fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 . Unable Unable to marry ...
... fact that , I apprehend , is unknown as to the Duke of Wellington , and it is a very important one .'- Notes on the Battle of Waterloo , by the late General Sir James Shaw Kennedy , K.C.B. , & c . London , 1865 . Unable Unable to marry ...
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... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation which it ...
... fact there is nothing to be got in the army but credit , and as it is not always that the best intentions and endeavours to serve the public succeed , it is hard that when they do succeed they should not receive the approbation which it ...
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... fact ‡ not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore . ' This sentence is placed in the title - page of Mr. Lushington's Life of Lord Harris , in which he ...
... fact ‡ not sufficiently known that General Harris himself conducted the details of the victorious army which he commanded " in Mysore . ' This sentence is placed in the title - page of Mr. Lushington's Life of Lord Harris , in which he ...
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... fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out the ...
... fact is , that the night was very dark , that the enemy expected us , and were strongly posted in an almost impenetrable jungle , we lost one officer killed , and nine men of the 33rd wounded , and at last as I could not find out the ...
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... fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a country ... facts of the case , and to the principles involved in the particular war referred to . Although the Duke certainly ...
... fact , we made war pretty much as Alexander the Great seems to have done , and as all men must do in such a country ... facts of the case , and to the principles involved in the particular war referred to . Although the Duke certainly ...
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Σελίδα 417 - He shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets ; a bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench ; till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Σελίδα 39 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Σελίδα 413 - And it came to pass that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the doctors, hearing them and asking them questions.
Σελίδα 17 - The Prayer Book Interleaved; with Historical Illustrations and Explanatory Notes arranged parallel to the Text, by the Rev. WM Campion, BD, Fellow and Tutor of Queens
Σελίδα 340 - Mistress! dismiss that rabble from your throne: Avaunt - is Aristarchus yet unknown? Thy mighty Scholiast, whose unweary'd pains Made Horace dull, and humbled Milton's strains. Turn what they will to Verse, their toil is vain, Critics like me shall make it Prose again. Roman and Greek Grammarians! know your Better: Author of something yet more great than Letter; While tow'ring o'er your Alphabet, like Saul, Stands our Digamma, and o'er-tops them all.
Σελίδα 155 - The only dedication I ever made was to my brother, because I loved him better than most other men. He is since dead. Permit me to inscribe this Poem to you.
Σελίδα 14 - I have come to a determination, when in my power, never to suffer an attack to be made by night upon an enemy who is prepared and strongly posted, and whose posts have not been reconnoitred by daylight.
Σελίδα 192 - Where, as to shame the temples deck'd By skill of earthly architect, Nature herself, it seem'd would raise A Minster to her Maker's praise ! Not for a meaner use ascend Her columns, or her arches bend ; Nor of a theme less solemn tells That mighty surge that ebbs and swells, And still, between each awful pause, From the high vault an answer draws, In varied tone prolong'd and high, That mocks the organ's melody.