 | 1846 - 706 pages
...English from jealousy. ' What can be done,' as the Duke said, ' with such ' trifles, but despise them? There is no end of the calumnies ' against me and...and I should have no time to do any ' thing else if 1 were to begin either to refute or even to notice ' them.' These jealousies and prejudices are industriously... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 692 pages
...Officers, and Staff. ' I have the honor to be, &c. ' Captain Sir G. Collier, RN' ' WELLINGTON. To the Right Hon. Sir Henry Wellesley, KB ' MY DEAR HENRY, ' Vera,...newspaper, reporting a supposed conversation between Castafios and me, (in which I am supposed to have consented to change my religion to become King of... | |
 | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington - Great Britain - 1838 - 696 pages
...Officers, and Staff. ' I have the honor to be, &c. ' Captain Sir G. Collier, RN' ' WELLINGTON. To the Right Hon. Sir Henry Wellesley, KB ' MY DEAR HENRY, ' Vera,...Very lately they took the occasion of a libel in an 7mA newspaper, reporting a supposed conversation between Castanos and me, (in which I am supposed to... | |
 | sir James Edward Alexander - 1840 - 620 pages
...and reports : " There is no end to the calumnies (Honourable Sir H. Wellesley, Vera, IGth October,) against me and the army, and I should have no time...to refute or even to notice them. Very lately they tcok the occasion of a libel in an Irish newspaper, reporting a supposed conversation between Castanos... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1852 - 564 pages
...subject, and I can only endeavour not to deserve any for my own." And again, while at Vera, in 1813 : " There is no end of the calumnies against me and the army, and I should have no time to do anything else were I to begin either to refute, or even to notice them. Very lately they took the occasion... | |
 | Thomas Philip De Grey (2nd earl.) - 1853 - 226 pages
...libels of the ' Xefe Politico' and ' Duende,' made me most angry." (xi. 185.) " There is no end to the calumnies against me and the army, and I should have no time to do anything else if I were to begin either to refute or even to notice them. Very lately they took the... | |
 | Mary Atkinson Maurice - 1853 - 322 pages
...Despatches. 140 FBENCH POSITION. ports against him. Writing to his brother, Sir H. Wellesley, he says, " There is no end of the calumnies against me and the army. I should have no time to do anything else if I were to begin either to refute or even to notice them.... | |
 | John Murray (publisher, London.) - Spain - 1855 - 554 pages
...rival to our potteries ! " What can be done (as the Duke said) with such libels but despise them ? There is no end of the calumnies against me and the army, and I should have no time to do anything else if I were to begin either to refute or even to notice them " (Disp. Oct. 16, 1813). This... | |
 | Richard Ford - Spain - 1855 - 550 pages
...There is no end of the calumnies against me and the army, and I should have no time to do anything else if I were to begin either to refute or even to notice them" (Disp. Oct. 16, 1813). This "invention of the enemy" is nevertheless repeated by Señor Mellado in... | |
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There is no end of the calumnies against me and the army, and I should have no time to do any thing else, if I were to begin either to refute or even to notice them. 
