National Portrait Gallery of Illustrious and Eminent Personages of the Nineteenth Century: With Memoirs, Volume 3Fisher, Son, & Jackson, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... the welcome the people seemed determined to give him . To this day , his kind and popular manners are matters of remem- brance and affection . Prince William - Henry next proceeded to the Leeward Island 4 NATIONAL PORTRAITS.
... the welcome the people seemed determined to give him . To this day , his kind and popular manners are matters of remem- brance and affection . Prince William - Henry next proceeded to the Leeward Island 4 NATIONAL PORTRAITS.
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... give you no idea of the man - none at all . He was a machine of imagination , as some one said Piron was an epigrammatic machine . " And again- " he was wonderful even to me , who had seen many wonderful men . " Mr. Curran shortly after ...
... give you no idea of the man - none at all . He was a machine of imagination , as some one said Piron was an epigrammatic machine . " And again- " he was wonderful even to me , who had seen many wonderful men . " Mr. Curran shortly after ...
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... gives an amusing account of the impression produced on him by the English Admiral's demeanour , when he returned from Algiers , after the fruitless attempt at negociation . " I was quite surprised to see how his Lordship was altered ...
... gives an amusing account of the impression produced on him by the English Admiral's demeanour , when he returned from Algiers , after the fruitless attempt at negociation . " I was quite surprised to see how his Lordship was altered ...
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... give that fame which is an earthly immortality , we doubt its existence even for the author of " The Lay of the last Minstrel , " and of " Waverley . " We live in a careless and hurrying age ; and , as in the action of that eternal rule ...
... give that fame which is an earthly immortality , we doubt its existence even for the author of " The Lay of the last Minstrel , " and of " Waverley . " We live in a careless and hurrying age ; and , as in the action of that eternal rule ...
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... give leisure the relish of employment , his existence , as a private individual , may be summed up in a few words ; it has been passed in content and respectability . But his public career is universal property ; and , as such , it is ...
... give leisure the relish of employment , his existence , as a private individual , may be summed up in a few words ; it has been passed in content and respectability . But his public career is universal property ; and , as such , it is ...
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