The Edinburgh Review, Volume 148A. and C. Black, 1878 - English literature |
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Page 47
... party , having suffered a loss of almost 600 killed and wounded , without inflicting any on the enemy . The 76th figured largely in the list , and even at this distance of time one reads with a pang of the remnant of this gallant ...
... party , having suffered a loss of almost 600 killed and wounded , without inflicting any on the enemy . The 76th figured largely in the list , and even at this distance of time one reads with a pang of the remnant of this gallant ...
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... parties were accustomed to withdraw at daybreak . This sallying party encountered the stormers advancing at dawn to occupy the sheltered ground preparatory to the attack . A skirmish ensued , and the enemy were driven back , but it was ...
... parties were accustomed to withdraw at daybreak . This sallying party encountered the stormers advancing at dawn to occupy the sheltered ground preparatory to the attack . A skirmish ensued , and the enemy were driven back , but it was ...
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... party could see what was clear to Lord Wel- lesley alone that while enormous benefits would accrue to India and its people from the completion of his policy , the financial difficulty it involved was of a temporary nature only . A great ...
... party could see what was clear to Lord Wel- lesley alone that while enormous benefits would accrue to India and its people from the completion of his policy , the financial difficulty it involved was of a temporary nature only . A great ...
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... party in the House of Commons , the diplomatic negotiations with Holland , Austria , and France , the transactions which led to the union with Scot- land , the financial measures of Sir Robert Walpole , are related in the most cursory ...
... party in the House of Commons , the diplomatic negotiations with Holland , Austria , and France , the transactions which led to the union with Scot- land , the financial measures of Sir Robert Walpole , are related in the most cursory ...
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... party spirit was more senseless or more fierce , when the Court was more pro- fligate , the Church more torpid , the people more ignorant , and manners more coarse than they were in the days of which Lord Hervey and Fielding have left a ...
... party spirit was more senseless or more fierce , when the Court was more pro- fligate , the Church more torpid , the people more ignorant , and manners more coarse than they were in the days of which Lord Hervey and Fielding have left a ...
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