The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs ..
The Gallery of Portraits: With Memoirs ..
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And we believe those charges for which there was any ground to have been greatly exaggerated by party spirit.
The private character of Marlborough was adorned by many virtues.
Digitized by Google 84 MARLBOROUGH.
but lessened by some weaknesses which laid him very open to the venomed ridicule of his enemies ; we allude to his avarice, and his defe- rence for his busy and imperious wife. He was prudent, clearsighted, and not deceived nor led away by his passions ; faithful to his domestic, and di...ligent in the performance of his religious, duties. In the field he was humane, sedulous to promote the comfort of his soldiers, and especially anxious, after battles, to minister all possible help and relief to the wounded. He was zealous in enforcing respect to the obser- vances of religion, and in endeavouring to raise the moral character of his troops. " His camp," says a biographer who had served in it, " resembled a great, well-governed city. Cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable, civil, sensible, and clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her hus- band's life, and committed the task of writing it first to Glover, then to Mallet.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
And we believe those charges for which there was any ground to have been greatly exaggerated by party spirit.
The private character of Marlborough was adorned by many virtues.
Digitized by Google 84 MARLBOROUGH.
but lessened by some weaknesses which laid him very open to the venomed ridicule of his enemies ; we allude to his avarice, and his defe- rence for his busy and imperious wife. He was prudent, clearsighted, and not deceived nor led away by his passions ; faithful to his domestic, and di...ligent in the performance of his religious, duties. In the field he was humane, sedulous to promote the comfort of his soldiers, and especially anxious, after battles, to minister all possible help and relief to the wounded. He was zealous in enforcing respect to the obser- vances of religion, and in endeavouring to raise the moral character of his troops. " His camp," says a biographer who had served in it, " resembled a great, well-governed city. Cursing and swearing were seldom heard among the officers ; a sot and a drunkard was the object of scorn ; and the poor soldiers, many of them the refuse and dregs of the nation, became, at the close of one or two campaigns, tractable, civil, sensible, and clean, and had an air and spirit above the vulgar." The Duchess of Marlborough collected ample materials for her hus- band's life, and committed the task of writing it first to Glover, then to Mallet.
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