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... soldiers . That respect and confidence he owed in no small measure to his personal courage . Courage , in the degree which is ne- cessary to carry a soldier without disgrace through a cam- paign , is possessed , or might , under proper ...
... soldiers . That respect and confidence he owed in no small measure to his personal courage . Courage , in the degree which is ne- cessary to carry a soldier without disgrace through a cam- paign , is possessed , or might , under proper ...
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... soldier . William denied that he was guilty of temerity . It was , he said , from a sense of duty , and on a cool calculation of what the public interest required , that he was always at the post of danger . The troops which he ...
... soldier . William denied that he was guilty of temerity . It was , he said , from a sense of duty , and on a cool calculation of what the public interest required , that he was always at the post of danger . The troops which he ...
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... soldiers of that age to think very lightly of the bloodshed and devastation inseparable from great martial exploits ; and the heart of William was steeled , not only by professional insensibility , but by that sterner insensibility ...
... soldiers of that age to think very lightly of the bloodshed and devastation inseparable from great martial exploits ; and the heart of William was steeled , not only by professional insensibility , but by that sterner insensibility ...
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... soldier , courtier , and negotiator , was now broken Salisbury . down by years and infirmities ; and those who saw him totter about the galleries of Whitehall , leaning on a stick and swathed up in flannels and plasters , comforted ...
... soldier , courtier , and negotiator , was now broken Salisbury . down by years and infirmities ; and those who saw him totter about the galleries of Whitehall , leaning on a stick and swathed up in flannels and plasters , comforted ...
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... soldier in the parliamentary army . Early in his life he had been fearfully tortured by remorse for his youthful sins , the worst of which seem , however , to have been such as the world thinks venial . His keen sensibility * Calamy's ...
... soldier in the parliamentary army . Early in his life he had been fearfully tortured by remorse for his youthful sins , the worst of which seem , however , to have been such as the world thinks venial . His keen sensibility * Calamy's ...
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