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 |
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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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Página 20 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Página 220 - Sir, a man has no more right to say an uncivil thing, than to act one; no more right to say a rude thing to another than to knock him down.
Página 178 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Página 49 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 234 - And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them ; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
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Página 190 - Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart's content : he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a whig; he was a very good hater...
Página 20 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.