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Title: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845

Author: Various

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BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. CCCLXII. DECEMBER, 1845. VOL. LVIII.

CONTENTS.

MARLBOROUGH No. II., 649

THE STUDENT OF SALAMANCA Part II., 673

WHITE'S THREE YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE, 688

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE CLOUD, 704

THE SECOND PANDORA, 711

THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD, 713

A FEW PASSAGES CONCERNING OMENS, DREAMS, APPEARANCES, &C., 735

A MOTHER TO HER FORSAKEN CHILD, 752

SUMMER NOONTIDE, _ib._

TO CLARA, 753

SECLUSION, _ib._

THE LAST HOURS OF A REIGN. Part I., 754

THE SCOTTISH HARVEST, 769

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MARLBOROUGH. No. II.[1]

It might have been expected, that after the march into Bavaria had
demonstrated the military genius of the Duke of Marlborough, and the
battle of Blenheim had in so decisive a manner bro