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There are thousands of young men , no doubt , with all the financial qualifications but not the last . The standard has gone up ; the limited class from which sufficient brains , character , and money had been available has shrunk .
There are thousands of young men , no doubt , with all the financial qualifications but not the last . The standard has gone up ; the limited class from which sufficient brains , character , and money had been available has shrunk .
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There has been no recovery since of the prestige of Age , not though it may by now have dimly dawned upon many who then were young and the actors in that tragic scene of world - war that it is often harder to give than to receive ...
There has been no recovery since of the prestige of Age , not though it may by now have dimly dawned upon many who then were young and the actors in that tragic scene of world - war that it is often harder to give than to receive ...
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It was essentially , especially in its later phases , a young man's war . . Few senior Generals were needed , but there were many openings for young and active column commanders , most of them approximately of the same age .
It was essentially , especially in its later phases , a young man's war . . Few senior Generals were needed , but there were many openings for young and active column commanders , most of them approximately of the same age .
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volumes 270-271 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1938 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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