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“ Though the Ottoman forces are not such as can be held up as examples of military excellence in all departments ' , he wrote , ' they are composed of brave and admirable fighting men who are abominably paid , whose pittance is ...
“ Though the Ottoman forces are not such as can be held up as examples of military excellence in all departments ' , he wrote , ' they are composed of brave and admirable fighting men who are abominably paid , whose pittance is ...
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Certainly , he wrote nothing for The Standard for almost four months , even though he was appointed to the Foreign Editorship shortly before his last expedition abroad . The only letter which survives from the time of his illness is one ...
Certainly , he wrote nothing for The Standard for almost four months , even though he was appointed to the Foreign Editorship shortly before his last expedition abroad . The only letter which survives from the time of his illness is one ...
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12 4 18 course of his tenancy of the Adjutant Generalship : ' I am thankfully in accord with you in all your efforts for progress ' , he wrote in 1880 , , ' for the introduction of the useful as opposed to the theatrical .
12 4 18 course of his tenancy of the Adjutant Generalship : ' I am thankfully in accord with you in all your efforts for progress ' , he wrote in 1880 , , ' for the introduction of the useful as opposed to the theatrical .
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POEMS translated by Graeme Wilson | 28 |
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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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