As one reads through the twelve portly volumes of Gurwood's edition of the Dispatches, one cannot but be amazed by the variety of knowledge, the clarity of exposition, the attention to detail, the relentless supervision or inspiration of such manifold activities—military, administrative and diplomatic.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As one reads through the twelve portly volumes of Gurwood's edition of the Dispatches, one cannot but be amazed by the variety of knowledge, the clarity of exposition, the attention to detail, the relentless supervision or inspiration of such manifold activities—military, administrative and diplomatic." in the context of "Antony Brett-James, Wellington at War, 1794–1815: A Selection of His Wartime Letters (1961), p. xxix" to mean that wisdom is timeless.