The Quarterly Review, Volume 215John Murray, 1911 |
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... examples occur in the record of the Napoleonic wars . All this is true ; but why was the strain so severe in those days ? It was because the want created by closing the sea could not then be compen- sated by land - borne supplies . In ...
... examples occur in the record of the Napoleonic wars . All this is true ; but why was the strain so severe in those days ? It was because the want created by closing the sea could not then be compen- sated by land - borne supplies . In ...
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... example of war on a large scale against the enemy's commerce . In that war , however , it was not the capture or destruction of enemy ships and cargoes that affected the final result , but blockade , which , rigorously carried out over ...
... example of war on a large scale against the enemy's commerce . In that war , however , it was not the capture or destruction of enemy ships and cargoes that affected the final result , but blockade , which , rigorously carried out over ...
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... example of continental nations in enforcing military service on the whole male popula- tion of suitable age . Such a decision ought not to be based on sectional interests , on abstract arguments as to what is right or wrong between ...
... example of continental nations in enforcing military service on the whole male popula- tion of suitable age . Such a decision ought not to be based on sectional interests , on abstract arguments as to what is right or wrong between ...
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... example which sets a fashion for ages after that in which it is produced . But the purist has never yet succeeded in stereotyping any particular literary form ; and the work of even the greatest authors must in the end suffer from the ...
... example which sets a fashion for ages after that in which it is produced . But the purist has never yet succeeded in stereotyping any particular literary form ; and the work of even the greatest authors must in the end suffer from the ...
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... examples of which were collected in what is known as the Greek Anthology . The strictness with which these poems adhered to a certain literary form , the elegiac couplet , is one of the most remarkable phenomena in Western literature ...
... examples of which were collected in what is known as the Greek Anthology . The strictness with which these poems adhered to a certain literary form , the elegiac couplet , is one of the most remarkable phenomena in Western literature ...
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