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" He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one to carry his mind, no face but one to keep his brain behind. The brain and the will are the essence and the whole of the man — a brain and a will so perfect in their workings that, in the face of... "
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New Outlook, Volume 61

1899 - 998 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same as if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...seem to know what struggle is. You cannot imagine the Sirdar otherwise than as seeing the right thing to do and doing it. His precision is so inhumanly unerring,...
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With Kitchener to Khartum

George Warrington Steevens - Egypt - 1898 - 408 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same as if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...seem to know what struggle is. You cannot imagine the Sirdar otherwise than as seeing the right thing to do and doing it. His precision is so inhumanly unerring,...
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The Outlook, Volume 61

United States - 1899 - 1004 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same as if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...seem to know what struggle is. You cannot imagine the Sirdar otherwise than as seeing the right thing to do and doing it. His precision is so inhumanly unerring,...
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The Great Battles of All Nations from Marathon to the Surrender of ..., Volume 2

Archibald Wilberforce - Battles - 1899 - 624 pages
...you divine an immovable mouth; his face is harsh and neither appeals for affection nor stirs dislike. The brain and the will are the essence and the whole of the man. In 1890 he succeeded Sir Francis Grenfell as Sirdar; in 1896 he began the conquest of the Soudan. His...
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Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers

Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 540 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...seem to know what struggle is. You cannot imagine the Sirdar otherwise than as seeing the right thing to do and doing it. His precision is so inhumanly unerring,...
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The Windsor Magazine, Volume 11

1900 - 770 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same if all the externals v\ere different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...face but one to keep his brain behind. The brain and will are the essence and the whole of the man—a brain and will so perfect in their workings that,...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools, Volume 1

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1902 - 444 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...his mind, no face but one to keep his brain behind. — GW STEVENS: With Kitchener to Khartum. *~ D. What words in the following passage from Lowell are...
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Composition and Rhetoric for Schools, Volume 1

Robert Herrick, Lindsay Todd Damon - English language - 1902 - 444 pages
...essential Sirdar. You could imagine the character just the same if all the externals were different. He has no age but the prime of life, no body but one...carry his mind, no face but one to keep his brain behind.—GW STEVENS: With Kitchener to Khartum. D. What words in the following passage from Lowell...
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Composition and Rhetoric

Maude Radford Warren - English language - 1903 - 408 pages
...words as is done in the following example. " The brain and the will are the essence and Repetition. the whole of the man — a brain and a will so perfect...difficulty they never seem to know what struggle is." Remove the words which are repeated, " a brain and a will" and the sentence at once falls apart. 3....
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Kitchener: Organizer of Victory

Harold Begbie - 1915 - 158 pages
...we pass to the essential fact, the man himself, the spirit of Kitchener. "He has no age," we read, "but the prime of life, no body but one to carry his mind, no face but one to keep his brain behind." His precision "is so inhumanly unerring, he is more like a machine than a man." He is "The Man Who...
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