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/**
* Search the tree for a match that satisfies specific comparison criteria,
* branch contains the desired data for which to search the tree
* @param compareFunc is a binary function object that defines
* how to compare
* nodes
* @param bRetrieve indicates whether or not the input search branch should be modified to reflect a branch in the tree, assuming a match satisfying the given search criteria exists
* @return true if a branch matching the input is found
* or returns nullptr otherwise
*
* It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
* it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief,
* it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope,
* it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven,
* we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted
* on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
*
* There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a plain face
* on the throne of England; there were a king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair
* face,
* on the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer than crystal to the lords of the
* State preserves of loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled for ever.
*
* It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five.
* Spiritual revelations were conceded to England at that favoured period, as at this. Mrs.
* Southcott had recently attained her five-and-twentieth blessed birthday, of whom a prophetic private in the Life
* Guards had heralded the sublime appearance by announcing that arrangements were made for the swallowing up of London and Westminster.
* Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round dozen of years, after rapping out its messages, as the spirits of this very year last past
* (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to
* the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important
* to the human race than any communications yet received through any of the chickens of the Cock-lane brood.
*/
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