George A. Aitken
Capitolo 75
shelters, tried to prevent the Protestants to enter the
church according to custom; but the Protestants actively attacked him and
his/her party, and it stormed in him from strength.
Last night between seven and the eight, his/her Grace the Duke of Marlborough
reached Court.
From my his/her own Apartment, April 22.
The great present captains of the age, the Duke of Marlborough and
Prince Eugene, having been the last dissertation subject
society in which I was, has naturally conducted me in a consideration of
Alexander and Caesar, the two greater names that they ever appeared before
this century. To enter their characters, there the necessities anybody
more but examining their behaviour in parallel circumstances. It has to be
it allowed, that they had an equal greatness of soul; but Caesar is you/he/she was more
as amended and it decreased from a mixture of the prudence and the circumspection. This
you/he/she is evidently seen in the one detail in their histories, where them
you seem to precisely have shown the difference of their temperaments. When
Alexander, after a long course of the victories you/he/she would still have conducted his
their soldiers unanimously refused more away from house, to follow him/it. Us
you meet with the likes behaviour in the army of Caesar in the mean of his/her March
against Ariovistus. I/you/he/she allow us of therefore to observe the two behavior
generals in so beautiful a bargain: and here we find Alexander to the head of
his/her army, taking back them with their cowardliness and the baseness of spirit;
and in the end, dicendoloro clearly, him he would go in before,
although not a man followed him/it. This showed indeed an excessive value;
but as the commander you/he/she has come away, if the discourse had not had
done succeed, and had the soldiers picked him up to his/her word? The project seems
of a piece with the Mr. Bayes in "it Tries her, " [129] who, to earn an applause
in his/her prologue, it goes out, with a terrible individual in a beret of fur
following him/it, and it tells his/her public, if they didn't like its play,