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" ... upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops, which he thought, by the forwardness of the commanders, to be most like to be farthest engaged... "
The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 344
by Alexander Chalmers - 1813
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...(holding them most ridiculous) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. • He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not with•ut some appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...church, (holding them most ridiculous) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not with* out some appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England: To which ..., Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 662 pages
...of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite P of danger; and therefore, upon any occasion of action,...forwardness of the commanders, to be most like to lie farthest engaged ; and in all such encounters he had about him an extraordinary cheerfulness, <*...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, to which ..., Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1826 - 652 pages
...church0, (holding them most ridiculous,) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper,...from fear, that he seemed not without some appetite P of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops,...
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Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of Britain and America, Volume 1

David Francis Bacon - 1833 - 630 pages
...deprived of great jewels in the concealment of them, and that they are not published to the world." " He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he was not without appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged...
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Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of ...

Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 566 pages
...of this distinguished person rendered vacant the office of Secretary of State, which the 1643. _ " without some appetite of danger, and therefore upon...commanders, to be most like to be farthest " engaged." " From the entrance unto this unnatural war, his natural " cheerfulness and vivacity grew clouded,...
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Life and Administration of Edward, First Earl of Clarendon: The life of ...

Thomas Henry Lister - 1838 - 578 pages
...Hyde. They will tend to show what Falkland was, and how worthily his friend could describe him : — " He had a courage of the " most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he seemed not VOL. I. Q The death of this distinguished person rendered vacant the office of Secretary of State,...
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The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Volume 4

Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1839 - 706 pages
...government, (holding them most ridiculous,) or affected to the other, which those men fancied to themselves. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper, and so far from fear, that he was not without appetite of danger ; and therefore, upon any occasion of action, he always engaged...
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The Centurions; Or Scripture Portraits of Roman Officers

Roman officers - 1841 - 304 pages
...clouded with poverty or want, a most liberal and bountiful patron towards them, even above his fortune. He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper,...troops, which he thought, by the forwardness of the comor the draughts of Circe, has transformed the young and vigorous enthusiast into the victim of useless...
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Heath's Historical Annual; Or, The Great Civil War of Charles I.: And the ...

1842 - 360 pages
...greatness of the obligation, as Q could be expressed, and as true a sense of it in his heart . . . He had a courage of the most clear and keen temper ; and therefore upon any occasion of action, he always engaged his person in those troops which he thought,...
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