The Quarterly Review, Volume 105William 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, 1859 - English literature |
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... mind one way or the other , either to restrain Lord Cornwallis's ardour , or to give him a more effective and timely support . The result is well known . His Lordship's first campaign , comprising the autumn and winter months of 1786 ...
... mind one way or the other , either to restrain Lord Cornwallis's ardour , or to give him a more effective and timely support . The result is well known . His Lordship's first campaign , comprising the autumn and winter months of 1786 ...
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... mind of cant ! ' Inscrutable are the operations of the mind , and boundless its powers of self - deception . Twice during his American cam- paigns , when he could ill be spared , did Lord Cornwallis abandon his command , and return to ...
... mind of cant ! ' Inscrutable are the operations of the mind , and boundless its powers of self - deception . Twice during his American cam- paigns , when he could ill be spared , did Lord Cornwallis abandon his command , and return to ...
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... mind as feeble as his body , and as undecided as his stumbling movements . ' During the sanguinary affair of Ross , which lasted ten hours , he and his aide - de - camp Gray , an attorney , remained inactive spectators on a hill . The ...
... mind as feeble as his body , and as undecided as his stumbling movements . ' During the sanguinary affair of Ross , which lasted ten hours , he and his aide - de - camp Gray , an attorney , remained inactive spectators on a hill . The ...
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... mind to accede to them . It is too late , my Lord , ' said the invalid ; I have been at the point of death , and I made a vow that , if ever I got well , I would lay all that has passed between us before the House of Commons . ' And if ...
... mind to accede to them . It is too late , my Lord , ' said the invalid ; I have been at the point of death , and I made a vow that , if ever I got well , I would lay all that has passed between us before the House of Commons . ' And if ...
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... mind to pay it rather than be baffled in a scheme on which , like the English Minister , he had set his heart and staked his reputation . In a memorandum drawn up by Lord Castlereagh , the interested Opposition is resolved into its ele ...
... mind to pay it rather than be baffled in a scheme on which , like the English Minister , he had set his heart and staked his reputation . In a memorandum drawn up by Lord Castlereagh , the interested Opposition is resolved into its ele ...
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