The Quarterly Review, Volumes 256-257William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero John Murray, 1931 |
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... Charles Oman had already established his reputation as a writer before he started this history . He had shown himself capable alike of lucid narrative and of forcible and well - arranged ... Charles Oman had already established his ...
... Charles Oman had already established his reputation as a writer before he started this history . He had shown himself capable alike of lucid narrative and of forcible and well - arranged ... Charles Oman had already established his ...
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... Charles Oman's first volume made it quite evident that the task had fallen into the right hands , that the necessary constructive ability was there , the power to do justice to this material , and , above all , the capacity to see the ...
... Charles Oman's first volume made it quite evident that the task had fallen into the right hands , that the necessary constructive ability was there , the power to do justice to this material , and , above all , the capacity to see the ...
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... Charles Oman says , ' the cardinal fact was that the Anglo - Portuguese Army was not strong enough for the task in hand . The real criticism on Wellington is , as he points out , that he left too many men at Madrid ; with two more ...
... Charles Oman says , ' the cardinal fact was that the Anglo - Portuguese Army was not strong enough for the task in hand . The real criticism on Wellington is , as he points out , that he left too many men at Madrid ; with two more ...
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