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... already practiced to extract from all whose reading or experience could add to the stores of his own mind . By his own account , it was the summer of that campaign which ended in the disaster of Saratoga . Cornwallis , coming down from ...
... already practiced to extract from all whose reading or experience could add to the stores of his own mind . By his own account , it was the summer of that campaign which ended in the disaster of Saratoga . Cornwallis , coming down from ...
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... already held . For these years , while it had been taking gradual shape , he had felt like a general who sees the fight go well , but knows that his best troops are still held back in reserve . He may well look with confidence to the ...
... already held . For these years , while it had been taking gradual shape , he had felt like a general who sees the fight go well , but knows that his best troops are still held back in reserve . He may well look with confidence to the ...
Page 496
... already his ? Honours and wealth and fame had come to him already , and by a better way . Not by inheritance , or a blundering chance , but by the quality of his own work . He had the joy of that work , and the consciousness that it was ...
... already his ? Honours and wealth and fame had come to him already , and by a better way . Not by inheritance , or a blundering chance , but by the quality of his own work . He had the joy of that work , and the consciousness that it was ...
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