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A year after his entry into the University , Henty flung aside all pretensions to an academic career , and left to work first in the South Wales coal mines in which his father had an interest , and later to join the army about to set ...
A year after his entry into the University , Henty flung aside all pretensions to an academic career , and left to work first in the South Wales coal mines in which his father had an interest , and later to join the army about to set ...
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The result of this added dimension in Henty's writing was to bring the debate on Army reform more sharply into focus , and alert his readership to the fact that the events on the Continent were not a matter for complacency .
The result of this added dimension in Henty's writing was to bring the debate on Army reform more sharply into focus , and alert his readership to the fact that the events on the Continent were not a matter for complacency .
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They say you can't win against the army . Apparently I had been quite right . The fuses were in fact loose . They had been setting themselves in the barrel of the gun . Hence the random bursts . It only needed an unlucky coincidence for ...
They say you can't win against the army . Apparently I had been quite right . The fuses were in fact loose . They had been setting themselves in the barrel of the gun . Hence the random bursts . It only needed an unlucky coincidence for ...
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| Title | The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 181 |
| Editors | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder and Company, 1974 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Dec 2007 |
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