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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Oblivion, by affixing it to Your memorable Name. I ihall not here prefume to mention the illuftrious PaiTages of Your Life, which are celebrated by the whole Age, and have been the Subject of the molt (ublime Pens j but if I could convey You to Po- fterity in your private Character, and defcribe the Stature, the Behaviour and Afpect of the Duke of Marlboroughj I queftion not but ft would fill the Reader with more agreeable Images, and give him a more delightful Entertainment than what can be found in the following, or any other Book. ONE cannot indeed without Offence, to Your felf, obferve, that You excel the reft of Mankind in the leaft, as well as the greateft Endowments. Nor were it a Cir- cumftance chapter{{Section 4cumftance to be mentioned, if the Graces and Attractions of Your Perfbn were not the only Prehemi- nenceYou have above others, which is left, almoft, unobferved by greater Writers. YET how pleafing would it be to thofe who fhall read the furprizing Revolutions in your Story, to be made acquainted with your ordinary Life and Deportment ? How pleafing would it be to hear that the fame Man who had carried Fire and Sword into the Countries of all that had oppofed the Caufe of Liberty, and ftruck a Terrour into the Armies of France, had in the midft of His high Station a Behaviour as gentle as is ufual in the firft Steps towards Greatnefs ? And if it were poflible to exprefs that eafie Grandeur, which did at once perfwade A 5 and chapter{{Section 5and command; it would appear as clearly to thofe to come, as it does to his Contemporaries, that all the great Events which were brought to pafs under the Conduct of To well-govern'd a Spirit, were the Bleflings of Heaven upon Wi dom and Valour; and all which leeni adverfe fell out by divine Permiflion, which ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217372213 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021737221X |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $13.06 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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