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Knowing the ' realism ' of Shakespeare's imagination , one can have little doubt that the rhetorical passage which the player recites to Hamlet , and which was caviare to the general , ' was imagined by our poet to come from a play of ...
Knowing the ' realism ' of Shakespeare's imagination , one can have little doubt that the rhetorical passage which the player recites to Hamlet , and which was caviare to the general , ' was imagined by our poet to come from a play of ...
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We doubt therefore whether any response is likely to follow Sir Arthur's appeal to the middle classes . Nevertheless we earnestly trust that his book will be widely read , and the lessons so ably given well taken to heart .
We doubt therefore whether any response is likely to follow Sir Arthur's appeal to the middle classes . Nevertheless we earnestly trust that his book will be widely read , and the lessons so ably given well taken to heart .
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... of the great battles , while it is beyond a doubt that the increase in the élan of the French soldiers and the genius of Bonaparte , not to mention his less renowned fellows , were most important factors in the French victories .
... of the great battles , while it is beyond a doubt that the increase in the élan of the French soldiers and the genius of Bonaparte , not to mention his less renowned fellows , were most important factors in the French victories .
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1 The Science of War By the late Colonel G F | 1 |
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