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"I had seen the science of the detective police so invariably triumphant over the best-planned schemes of the most audacious criminals, that I should have considered had I ever debated the question, which I never did Joseph Wilmot's evasion of justice an actual impossibility.
It is now generally admitted that it was one of the best-planned battles of the war, but one of the worst-fought.
Then came the Atlanta campaign; following that the strategical march to the sea; and, finally, that bold movement from Savannah to Goldsboro, which is considered by the best critics as one of the boldest and best-planned campaigns of history one in which every chance was taken, and every opportunity given the enemy to concentrate upon an inferior force.
It was a satisfactory if a somewhat negative arrangement, and he rose next morning with a feeling that things had begun to shape themselves. But chance sometimes has a disconcerting knack of forestalling even our best-planned schemes.
The attendant Maxim was dragged back by the exultant captors, who reached the town amid shoutings and laughter with the first break of day. One man wounded, the gallant Henderson, is the cheap price for the best-planned and most dashing exploit of the war. Secrecy in conception, vigour in execution they are the root ideas of the soldier's craft.
This study has become more than ever important now to navies, because of the great and steady power of movement possessed by the modern steamer. The best-planned schemes might fail through stress of weather in the days of the galley and the sailing-ship; but this difficulty has almost disappeared.
It is now generally admitted that it was one of the best-planned battles of the war, but one of the worst-fought.
Have you read the report of the Fenley murder in the evening papers?" "Yes, sir. Is it a murder?" "What else could it be?" "An extraordinary accident." Winter weighed the point, which had not occurred to him previously. "No," he said. "It was no accident. I incline to the belief that it was the best-planned crime I've tackled during the past few years. That is my present opinion, at any rate.
"Margaret we see much evil arise in the best-planned institutions; nay, in what are not human. Don't you think we ought to do our utmost to have no flaw in the foundation? Schools are not such perfect places that we can build them without fear, and, if the means are to be raised by a bargain for amusement if they are to come from frivolity instead of self-denial, I am afraid of them.
It is now generally admitted that it was one of the best-planned battles of the war, but one of the worst-fought.
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