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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 26., The Society's work. (search)
Horace Walpole, in a letter to Sir Horace Mann, written during the Seven Years War, expresses himself wearied with the slow process of military events.
He says that no doubt the occurrences of Cæsar's day seemed to drag themselves along quite as tediously, although the conquests of Cæsar are proverbial for their rapidity.
We read the commentaries, or the campaigns of Frederick, all in the bulk.
We do not go through the tedious details of military operations in the newspapers, catching the news of a moment one day, and resting upon our information thus picked up for several others to come.
The newspapers, and the dispatches and bulletins of the generals, only let us see a little at a time.
A six months campaign gathered this way, in detail, is wearisome enough.
We must wait for the historian if we wish to read operations in the mass.
In addition to other causes of uneasiness, the great anxiety necessarily felt by contemporaries — especially by that portion of them who