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Indeed Soult's success was really a blessing in disguise to the Allied cause . Had his 70,000 been added to the 80,000 whom Masséna led into Portugal , Wellington's task would have been incomparably harder .
Indeed Soult's success was really a blessing in disguise to the Allied cause . Had his 70,000 been added to the 80,000 whom Masséna led into Portugal , Wellington's task would have been incomparably harder .
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But Wellington knew that a merely partial success would not be worth the cost , since , if he waited , starvation would achieve his purpose ; he calculated that a real success would mean 10,000 casualties , a higher price than he was ...
But Wellington knew that a merely partial success would not be worth the cost , since , if he waited , starvation would achieve his purpose ; he calculated that a real success would mean 10,000 casualties , a higher price than he was ...
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A man's greatness is apt to be measured by the test which is most of all affected by the chapter of accidents , namely , visible success . That is the most obvious test , but it is superficial and often wholly inadequate .
A man's greatness is apt to be measured by the test which is most of all affected by the chapter of accidents , namely , visible success . That is the most obvious test , but it is superficial and often wholly inadequate .
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Contents
CONTENTS OF Nos 433 434 AND 435 | 1 |
Roman History since Mommsen | 2 |
The Isolation of Theology | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 219 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 8 Jan 2008 |
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