The National Review, Volume 71W.H. Allen, 1918 - English literature |
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... means to seize any territory she covets , beginning with the Baltic provinces and going on to the Black Sea . In all long wars there is necessarily ebb and flow . Nor can we be surprised that the Fatherland , however short of food ...
... means to seize any territory she covets , beginning with the Baltic provinces and going on to the Black Sea . In all long wars there is necessarily ebb and flow . Nor can we be surprised that the Fatherland , however short of food ...
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... means always , or even generally , resulted from diversity of strategical and tactical aims on the part of the military chiefs . Friction , rivalry , and differences of opinion have far more often been due to purely political causes ...
... means always , or even generally , resulted from diversity of strategical and tactical aims on the part of the military chiefs . Friction , rivalry , and differences of opinion have far more often been due to purely political causes ...
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... means a bad soldier . When the situation was at its very worst for the Republican army owing to the follies of the Convention before the Committee of Public Safety was estab- lished , Coburg decided on a march from Flanders on the ...
... means a bad soldier . When the situation was at its very worst for the Republican army owing to the follies of the Convention before the Committee of Public Safety was estab- lished , Coburg decided on a march from Flanders on the ...
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... means the tried soldier that Stair was . The Austrian generals fought shy of serving under Suvaroff in Italy in 1799 ; but that illustrious leader managed gradually to overcome their prejudices in his rough and ready fashion , and in ...
... means the tried soldier that Stair was . The Austrian generals fought shy of serving under Suvaroff in Italy in 1799 ; but that illustrious leader managed gradually to overcome their prejudices in his rough and ready fashion , and in ...
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... means of the exercise of sovereign power , are those who so glibly use this phrase prepared to grant full sovereign power and in- dependence to Ireland ? Those who since the war began have been talking so much about " the rights of ...
... means of the exercise of sovereign power , are those who so glibly use this phrase prepared to grant full sovereign power and in- dependence to Ireland ? Those who since the war began have been talking so much about " the rights of ...
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