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...knowledge of that art. Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previously study, and that the possession... | |
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...contemptible. To a Committee of the Continental Congress, Camp at the Clove, July 19, 1777 Military Science A thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; that it demands much previous study; and that the possession... | |
 | Gleaves Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 496 pages
...knowledge of that art. Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession... | |
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...knowledge of that art. Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession... | |
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 | Robert Marion La Follette - Inventors - 1904 - 490 pages
...disastrous, while its purposes are certainly more sordid and merciless; and when, as in our day, 167 the two are associated as master and tool, such epithets,...previous study; and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation." From these considerations... | |
 | Solon Justus Buck, Theodore Christian Blegen - Minnesota - 1916 - 644 pages
...superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince, that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much...previous study, and that the possession of it in its most improved and perfect state, is always of great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore,... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1832 - 638 pages
...knowledge of that art. Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples, superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince, that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated ; that it demands much previous study ; and that the possession... | |
 | 1230 pages
...knowledge of that art. Whatever arguments may be drawn from particular examples superficially viewed, a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, that it demands much previous study, and that the possession... | |
 | Henry Norman, Henry Chalmers Roberts - 1903 - 732 pages
...in 1802, it was made law. " Whatever argument may be drawn from particular examples," he had said, " a thorough examination of the subject will evince that the art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated, and that the possession of it in THE MOUNTAIN BATTERY 512 513... | |
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