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Excerpt from The Stoddard Library, Vol. 4: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment With the World's Great Writers; Illustrated
History of the Ottoman Turks, Fifteen Decisive Battles Of the World, etc. After taking a degree at Cambridge he studied law, and after about twenty years' practice, was appointed chief-justice of Ceylon, in 1860, and knighted. In 1840 he had been chosen as professor of History in University College.
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