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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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