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...Carlyle's splendid dithyrambs, and it is no waste of time to recall and to transcribe it : — March hearing all suggestions, he selected whatever was best ; and certainly no general ever planned Lis battles m:>re judiciously. But if deranged during the course of the action, if any membtr of his... | |
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