The Quarterly Review, Band 62William 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, 1838 |
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... kind , the powers of Europe would consider his most Christian Majesty as the aggressor , and Great Britain would reap all the fruits of the de- fensive alliances in which she had engaged . But nothing could be more weak and frivolous ...
... kind , the powers of Europe would consider his most Christian Majesty as the aggressor , and Great Britain would reap all the fruits of the de- fensive alliances in which she had engaged . But nothing could be more weak and frivolous ...
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... of opinion that the troops might land . Conway proposed that they should make themselves * Locker's Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders . masters kind of sense ; but he was really weak , Life of Admiral Lord Howe . 13.
... of opinion that the troops might land . Conway proposed that they should make themselves * Locker's Memoirs of Celebrated Naval Commanders . masters kind of sense ; but he was really weak , Life of Admiral Lord Howe . 13.
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... kind of sense ; but he was really weak , and childishly abandoned to the guidance of a Scotch secretary . The next was Knowles , a vain man , of more parade than real bravery . Howe , brother of the lord of that name , was the third on ...
... kind of sense ; but he was really weak , and childishly abandoned to the guidance of a Scotch secretary . The next was Knowles , a vain man , of more parade than real bravery . Howe , brother of the lord of that name , was the third on ...
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... kind of degradation to so noble a ship to be pitied , but really her situation would have been lament- able , if the enemy had preserved any degree of composure , or fired with any sort of direction ; but their confusion was so great ...
... kind of degradation to so noble a ship to be pitied , but really her situation would have been lament- able , if the enemy had preserved any degree of composure , or fired with any sort of direction ; but their confusion was so great ...
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... kind . That of the British government was weak and vacillating , its councils were divided , and never wise but when too late . It must have been a relief to Lord Howe when his attempt to open a communication with Washington was ...
... kind . That of the British government was weak and vacillating , its councils were divided , and never wise but when too late . It must have been a relief to Lord Howe when his attempt to open a communication with Washington was ...
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